All the Texts for Xenophanes of Colophon

The series “Traditio Praesocratica” has as its announced aim to produce a comprehensive collection of the source-texts for early Greek philosophy, drawing from what has been preserved (in the form of testimonia and citations) by authors from antiquity to the middle ages, but doing so at much wider scope and more fully than has been done before. Within the individual volumes of the series, the relevant selections are presented in ample context and in chronological order – based on the dates known for the source-author. The volume on Xenophanes, the third in the series,1 starts with incidental mentions of Xenophanes in testimonia that are primarily about Epicharmus and Heraclitus (both sixth to early fifth century bce); it draws next from Plato and from Aristotle; then proceeds through other known sources for Xenophanes from the ancient Greek and Roman traditions, and beyond. To that better known record of texts it adds some from the classical tradition that have been overlooked (or perhaps set aside without compelling reason),