What are some essential books on the Pre-socratics? I already

Penguin's "Early Greek Philosophy"

i feel like these guys are almost totally negligible.
heraclitus has that one quote

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>>8847869
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The problem is that beyond honest expositions such as Kirk & Raven's what you're likely to find are either boring philological analyses or unfounded overinterpretations serving the biases of their authors (everyone likes to latch on to Presocratics and put words into their mouths since they represent "the origins of pure thought" while beying conveniently ambiguous).

>>8847890
elaborate

>>8847869
horrible, horrible opinion. Socrates was a degenerate, presocratic philosophy is where its at.

>>8847983
im a christian and socrates foresaw the virgin mary in symposium.

also a big fan of augustine and he was a neo-platonist so

>>8847846
Hermann Diels, The Fragments of the Presocratics

>>8847869
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>>8847988
>im a ****** and ....
Don't start a post like this unless you are below the age of 16

Bumping this post. In particular I am infatuated with Zeno's thought process. Does anyone have suggestions dealing with his realm of work?

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What do you guys think about the Phoenix Presocratic Series?

https://youtu.be/Ow-_G26lpOk

>>8847983
>socrates was a degenerate
Sorry, can't hear you over the sound of you gargling Nietzsche's dead dick.