André Laks is Professor Emeritus of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Paris–Sorbonne, and Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City. Glenn W. Most is Visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
André Laks and Glenn W. Most have made available to the world of
scholarship in early Greek philosophy a resource of immense value.
Every study of a thinker or of an issue within the thematic ambit
of Early Greek Philosophy must henceforth start by canvassing and
taking into account the appropriate selections in the Loeb set.
*Bryn Mawr Classical Review*
In brief, André Laks and Glenn Most give us a brilliant and
beautiful reference work that can, at the same time, be easily
enough read straight through. And spending a few months doing so
gives the reader almost all that she needs (perhaps along with Loeb
#258, Greek Elegiac Poetry) to reconstruct for herself the origins
of the discipline of philosophy. I should want any graduate student
or colleague in ancient philosophy or intellectual history to
acquire and make their way through it.
*Classical Journal*
The publication of the Loeb Classical Library’s nine-volume set,
Early Greek Philosophy, gives us a new edition of the original
texts, with fresh translations. It is a monumental achievement—the
result of many years of dedicated work on the part of the two
editors/translators André Laks and Glenn W. Most… We owe a profound
debt of gratitude to the editors/translators for their thorough and
impeccable scholarship, and to the publishers for their usual high
standards of production. If you can afford them, don’t hesitate:
you will be all the richer for having these volumes on your
shelves.
*Minerva*
The publication of a Loeb Classical Library edition of the evidence
for early Greek philosophy is a major event in classical
scholarship… The editors and their assistants are to be commended
for their exemplary execution of such a vast and difficult task.
They have succeeded in producing what is far and away the best
available edition of the texts of the early Greek philosophers with
accompanying English translation.
*Arion*
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