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In this article I intend to show that Plato in the  Sophist  provides us with the earliest doxographic material on pre-Platonic thinkers. In his account on his predecessors, Xenophanes emerges as the founder of the Eleatic tribe as opposed to the pluralists, while Heraclitus and Empedocles are  presented as the Ioanian and the Italian Muses respectively. This  prima facie  genealogical approach, where Plato’s predecessors become the representatives of schools of different origines paves the way for Plato’s project in the  Sophist . In other words the monistic account Xenophanes introduces, prepares for the synthesis between the one and the many set forth by Heraclitus and Empedocles, which is thus presented as a further step towards the ‘interweaving of forms’ (συμπλοκήν εἰδῶν) Plato proposes in the  Sophist .

Xenophanes in Plato’s Sophist and the first philosophical genealogy