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Diogenes Laërtius (c. 200 - 250 C.E.) was an early doxographer who compiled biographies of ancient Greek philosphers in his seminal work, Lives of Eminent Philosophers. The ten books contain quotations and anecdotes from the lives of nearly one hundred philosophers, including 45 important figures, from Thales (585 B.C.E. ) to the Skeptics of ...
Aug 6, 2014 · Much of what is known about his life in Athens and Corinth comes from the work The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius (3rd century CE). Some of the most amusing anecdotes are those relating his continual feud with Plato whom he considered a pretentious, prattling, snob.
Diogenes Laertius (3rd century CE) is the author of a collection of poems entitled Pammetros and of a work in ten books known as the Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers. The Lives were dedicated to a woman who was an enthusiastic Platonist (Book 3, § 47 and Book 10, § 29) and whose identity is unknown.
Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, BOOK X, EPICURUS (341-271 B.C.) book: chapter: EPICURUS (341-271 B.C.) Epicurus, son of Neocles and Chaerestrate, was as citizen of Athens of the deme Gargettus, and, as Metrodorus says in his book On Noble Birth, of the family of the Philaidae.
Jan 4, 2022 · BMCR 2022.01.04. Diogenes Laertius. Lives of eminent philosophers: an edited translation. Stephen White , Diogenes Laertius. Lives of eminent philosophers: an edited translation . Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 524. ISBN 9780521883351 .
Aug 26, 2014 · These sources are no longer extant but are preserved in the work of Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (3rd century CE) which gives brief biographical sketches of those Greek thinkers Laertius felt were the most important. His Life of Antisthenes of Athens is here given below.
Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers , pp. 1 - 58. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511843440.002. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Print publication year: 2013. Access options. Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below.
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