Ancient Philosophy Book

This is a very interesting introduction to the ancient Greek philosophy. Most of us who had studied any form of ancient philosophy have had encounters with all of its "big thinkers", such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Diogenes, etc. We may even know a thing or two about various schools of thought that some those philosophers belonged to (Stoicism, Cynicism, etc.), and this short book is a good and valuable refresher of those topics. It is very well written and engaging boom, and manages to bring to life some of the ideas and perspectives that might otherwise be painfully dry and unrelatable to the modern readers. For me the most interesting aspect of the book was its coverage of how the perspective on various ancient philosophies evolved over time. For instance, for most of history Plato's "Republic" was not treated as a treatise on political philosophy, but for the past century and a half this seems to have been the predominant reading of that text.

Highly recommended book.