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==Top Ten Books==
Blackson, Thomas A. 2011. <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1444335731/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1444335731&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=7a73d61c994f3772f34c138870cb40b1 Ancient Greek Philosophy from the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers]</i>. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. If you want a modern book and an overview of this great age of Greek philosophers , then this is your book. It begins with Presocratics, arguably the first great wave of thinker who begin to the foundation of inquiry and what becomes scientific thinking, and ends with the final destruction of the Academy.
Tom Blackson also has a syllabus and text links to the Perseus Digital Library available at his website. Here are the links: [http://tomblackson.com/Ancient/syllabus.html syllabus] and [http://tomblackson.com/Ancient/toc.html notes]. They are a perfect supplament for his book. Cohen, S. Marc, Patricia Curd, and C. D. C. Reeve, eds. 2011. <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1603844627/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1603844627&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=dff619bb00dc8b404854f0c0b8d9e16b Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy: From Thales to Aristotle]</i>. 4th ed. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. This work is considered the standard introductory book on Greek philosophers. If you want to know how the philosophers developed and some of the key thinkskeys ideas, including Plato and Aristotle, then this book explains a lot of this story and how the philosophers developed their schools in a time of great change in Greece.
[[File:AncientGreekPhilosophy.png|thumbnail|250px|<i>Ancient Greek Philosophy</i>]]
Russell, Bertrand. 1996. <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671201581/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0671201581&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=12862945d4b559d42fe6f6c19f4f6e84 History of Western Philosophy]</i>. Reprinted. Routledge Classics. London: Routledge. This is perhaps the best selling book on Western and Greek philosophy in the 20th century. It was reprinted time and time again. It helps to explain, using clear description, how Western philosophy developed, particularly influenced by the Greek philosophers.
Sedley, D. N., ed. 2003. <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521446678/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0521446678&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=5e3a801af7662b178df4a82787fad77b The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy]</i>. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. This book provides a survey approach for some of the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers, covering Pythagoras, one of the early philosophers, to Cicero, one of the important Roman thinkers and theorists in the 1st century BCE.
[[File:Illustrerad_Verldshistoria_band_I_Ill_107.jpg|thumbnail|250px|Thales of Miletus]]
Graham, Daniel W., ed. 2010. <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521608422/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0521608422&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=0f047751e93eb68f921ad078cab79538 The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy: The Complete Fragments and Selected Testimonies of the Major Presocratics]</i>. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. What is striking to those who study Greek Philosophy is how little of their works actually survived and often we have passed on testimonials rather than first hand writing handwriting to describe what the philosophies were. The Presocratics were the first set of important philosophers , and their fragmentary writings are very important to reconstructing their early thoughts. This work presents the key fragments.
Wright, M. R. 2010. <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520261488/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0520261488&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=24f00708bc10979cf731ed9b5dd1e471 Introducing Greek Philosophy] </i>. Berkeley: University of California Press. For a more recent treatment of the Greek philosophers, Wright's book presents a nice easy read. This is a good contemporary book for those wanting to learn about Greek philosophy without getting confused by the complicated parts.
