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Diogenes Laertius. Diogenes Laërtius ( / daɪˌɒdʒɪniːz leɪˈɜːrʃiəs / dy-OJ-in-eez lay-UR-shee-əs; [1] Greek: Διογένης Λαέρτιος, Laertios; fl. 3rd century AD) was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Little is definitively known about his life, but his surviving Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a ...
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.
Diogenes Laërtius (flourished 3rd century ce) was a Greek author noted for his history of Greek philosophy, the most important existing secondary source of knowledge in the field. One of its traditional titles, Peri biōn dogmatōn kai apophthegmatōn tōn en philosophia eudokimēsantōn (“Lives, Teachings, and Sayings of Famous Philosophers ...
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Aug 6, 2014 · Diogenes of Sinope (c. 404-323 BCE) was a Greek Cynic philosopher best known for holding a lantern to the faces of the citizens of Athens claiming he was searching for an honest man. He was most likely a student of the philosopher Antisthenes (445-365 BCE) and, in the words of Plato (allegedly), was “A Socrates gone mad.”.
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Diogenes Laertius wrote in Greek, compiling his material from hundreds of sources that he often names. Most of these sources are no longer in existence. The philosophers are divided, unscientifically, into two 'successions' or sections: 'Ionian' from Anaximander to Theophrastus and Chrysippus, including the Socratic schools; and 'Italian' from ...
Jan 15, 2020 · 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.
This edition presents a radically improved text of Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers. The text is accompanied by a full critical apparatus on three levels. A lengthy introduction lists all the manuscripts of the Lives and discusses its transmission in late antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
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