Best book for reading the pre-socratics?

>>1209391
Kirk and Raven

>>1209575
thanks bro

>>1209391
I wanted to lol at seeing this OP. Why would you want to read any philosophy pre-Socratic? I understand that there were thinkers before him, but not that many in all honesty and not measuring up to him. I'm genuinely curious. Also, hope you get the info you want in this thread.

>>1211059
Just for the sake of starting where greek philosophy began

>>1211059
Presocratic philosophy is pretty powerful stuff. Heraclitus and Parmenides are rivers from which the essentials of so much other philosophy flows.

>>1209391
I read The First Philosophers

I know everyone recommends Oxford, but I read Patricia Curd's 'A Pre-Socratic Reader' and it worked fine for my purposes

>>1211059
what the fuck