Philolaus of Croton: Pythagorean and Presocratic

• Part I. Introduction: 1. Life and writings; 2. Authenticity; Part II. Philolaus' Philosophy: 3. Limiters and unlimiteds; 4. Number and Harmonia; 5. Philolaus' use of archai and the method of hypothesis; Part III. Genuine Fragments and Testimonia: 6. Basic principles; 7. Epistemology; 8. Cosmogony; 9. Astronomy; 10. Embryology and medicine; 11. Soul and psychic faculties; 12. Miscellaneous genuine fragments and testimonia; Part IV. Spurious or Doubtful Fragments and Testimonia: 13. The world soul; 14. Fragments and testimonia on number; 15. Fragments and testimonia on music; 16. Gods and angles; 17. Fragments and testimonia on cosmology; 18. Fragments on soul; 19. Miscellaneous fragments and testimonia; Bibliography; Indexes.

"...rich and rewarding...The book is clearly a labor of love, and Huffman does his best to give us a Philolaus who has important and intelligent things to say; but he is not blind to faults, honestly pointing out difficulties and obscurities where they occur in Philolaus' thought. 'Important' is a term that is used far too often in book reviews; but this is an important book; it has been a long time since 1819 [when the first book devoted to Philolaus alone was published], but Carl Huffman's Philolaus of Croton: Pythagorean and Presocratic has been worth waiting for." Bryn Mawr Classical Review