A review by cameronius
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks by Friedrich Nietzsche

5.0

An unfinished early manuscript by the last great metaphysician of the West examining several pre-Socratic philosophers of the early classical age. This is a slim volume, but Nietzsche manages to pack in a thorough review of Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Anaxagoras. As a trained philologist, Nietzsche knew the Greeks well and pulls the reader into the marvelous ancient culture that produced these philosophers. Although I found the treatment of Parmenides somewhat dismissive, Nietzsche offers striking portraits of the great early thinkers that are essential to anyone with a serious interest in philosophy, Nietzsche or classical Greece.