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Blackson, Thomas A. 2011. <i>Ancient Greek Philosophy from the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers</i>. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. If you want a modern book and 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 the foundation of inquiry and what becomes scientific thinking, and ends with the final destruction of the Academy.
Guthrie, William Keith Chambers. 1975. The Greek Philosophers from Thales to Aristotle. 1st ed. reprinted. New York: Harper Torchbooks. Makin
Cohen, S. Marc, Patricia Curd, and C. D. C. Reeve, eds. 2011. <i>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 thinks, 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.
