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Diogenes ( / daɪˈɒdʒɪniːz / dy-OJ-in-eez; Ancient Greek: Διογένης, romanized : Diogénēs [di.oɡénɛːs] ), also known as Diogenes the Cynic ( Διογένης ὁ Κυνικός, Diogénēs ho Kynikós) or Diogenes of Sinope, was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynicism. He was born in Sinope, an Ionian colony on ...
Oct 28, 2022 · One tenth century text, Tractatus de dictis philosophorum, shows knowledge of Diogenes Laertius.In the twelfth century Henricus Aristippus produced the first Latin translation, now lost, which was the basis of the anonymous Italian compendium On the Lives and Mores of the Philosophers (De vita et moribus philosophorum) once attributed to Walter Burley (1275-c. 1345).
Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Diogenes Laertius. R.D. Hicks. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1972 (First published 1925). National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access provided support for entering this text. This text was converted to electronic form by Data Entry and has been proofread to a low level of accuracy.
Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Diogenes Laertius. R.D. Hicks. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1972 (First published 1925). National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access provided support for entering this text. This text was converted to electronic form by Data Entry and has been proofread to a low level of accuracy.
May 14, 2018 · This rich tradition was recast by Diogenes Laertius into an anthology, a miscellany of maxims and anecdotes, that generations of Western readers have consulted for edification as well as entertainment ever since the Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, first compiled in the third century AD, came to prominence in Renaissance Italy. To this day ...
- Diogenes Laertius, Pamela Mensch
Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume I. Books 1-5. This rich compendium on the lives and doctrines of philosophers ranges over three centuries, from Thales to Epicurus (to whom the whole tenth book is devoted); 45 important figures are portrayed. Diogenes Laertius carefully compiled his information from hundreds of sources and enriches his ...
Feb 28, 2019 · Lives of the Eminent Philosophers – Bryn Mawr Classical Review. BMCR 2019.02.28. Diogenes Laertius. Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. Pamela Mensch , James Miller , Diogenes Laertius. Lives of the Eminent Philosophers . Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xx, 676. ISBN 9780190862176 . $45.00.
