Diogenes Laërtius was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Little is definitively known about his life, but his surviving Lives and Opinions of Eminent ...

Diogenes Laertius. R.D. Hicks. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1972 (First published 1925). National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation ...

25.10.2024 ã. · Diogenes Laërtius was a Greek author noted for his history of Greek philosophy, the most important existing secondary source of knowledge in ...

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, translated by Robert Drew Hicks (1929) Loeb Classical Library 1925, a work in the public domain.

[20] Diogenes was a native of Sinope, son of Hicesius, a banker. Diocles relates that he went into exile because his father was entrusted with the money of the ...

The Lives of the Philosophers, by Diogenes Laertius, is the most comprehensive ancient account of the lives of the early Greek philosophers.

This new edition of the Lives, in a faithful and eminently readable translation by Pamela Mensch, is the first rendering of the complete text into English in ...

Diogenes Laertius lived probably in the earlier half of the 3rd century CE, his ancestry and birthplace being unknown. His history, in ten books, is divided ...

Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers.

A pioneering work in the history of philosophy, the ancient text of the Lives presents engaging portraits of nearly a hundred Greek philosophers.