Thinking about Waterfield's book on the Presocratics, I read it last year because I thought it'd be a good starting-point for the Classics. Now, I think the opposite is the case.https://itsollkorrect.com/blog/2016/08/the-first-philosophers-the-presocratics-and-sophists/ …
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It's difficult to remember much about fragments from authors who are just names, but easier if you've read other works who talk about them.
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @CheshireOcelot
(More seriously, I think that reading Diogenes Laertius or Plutarch or w/e on the pre-Socratics makes sense as "subway reading", which can then be supplemented by the Fragments if you are diving deep into Plato/Aristotle)
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Coincidentally, I am listening to Parallel Lives on audiobook, mostly while commuting or doing chores. It functions a lot like a history podcast.
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Parallel Lives is great, but there aren't any philosophy ones are there? (asking b/c I looked recently) I think all his philosophy is in Moralia
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I haven't checked. I can't focus on audiobooks as I can with physical books, so I avoid heavy material like philosophy. Parallel Lives is at the upper end of how difficult I want an audiobook.
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Even Parallel Lives only works because it's essentially episodic.
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yeah that's how i am for casual reading, 9 times out of 10. I can't read long things in subway or else i start reading them off the subway
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