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Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day
of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides
to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored
the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide
variety of ideas and examples to follow. 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,
it remains a crucial source for much of what we know about the
origins and practice of philosophy in ancient Greece, covering a
longer period of time and a larger number of figures-from
Pythagoras and Socrates to Aristotle and Epicurus-than any other
ancient source.
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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 accounts with numerous quotations.
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 unscientifically into two 'Successions' or
sections: 'Ionian' from Anaximander to Theophrastus and Chrysippus,
including the Socratic schools; 'Italian' from Pythagoras to
Epicurus, including the Eleatics and sceptics. It is a very
valuable collection of quotations and facts.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Diogenes Laertius is in
two volumes.
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 accounts with numerous quotations.
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 unscientifically into two 'Successions' or
sections: 'Ionian' from Anaximander to Theophrastus and Chrysippus,
including the Socratic schools; 'Italian' from Pythagoras to
Epicurus, including the Eleatics and sceptics. It is a very
valuable collection of quotations and facts.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Diogenes Laertius is in
two volumes.
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