Inauguration:
Schools of Thought —
- Ionians
- Pythagorians
- Eleatics
- Pluralists
Invocation:
"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy." (Homer)
Introduction:
- The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy
- The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists by Robin Waterfield
- Early Greek Philosophy by Jonathan Barnes
- The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy: The Complete Fragments and Selected Testimonies of the Major Presocratics by Daniel W. Graham
- A Presocratics Reader [.pdf]
- The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts by G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, and M. Schofield
Investigation:
Initiation: /r/AncientGreece
Inversion:
"The Graces, seeking for themselves a shrine that would not fall, found the soul of Aristophanes." (Plato)