This is a 1950 collection of eight essays about Plato and the Presocratic philosophers who were F. M. Cornford's particular interest in the field of Greek thought. The volume includes essays discussing Pythagoras, Hesiod and Plato, in which Cornford's enthusiasm for his subject will communicate itself to any reader.

This is a 1950 collection of eight essays about Plato and the Presocratic philosophers who were F. M. Cornford's particular interest in the field of Greek thought.