Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume I: Books 1-5

by Diogenes Laertius, R. D. Hicks (Translator)

Overview

Examined lives.

Diogenes Laertius, author of a work on Greek philosophy, lived probably in the earlier half of the third century, his ancestry and birthplace being unknown. He was an Epicurean philosopher, but his work is not philosophical. The title is History of Philosophy or On the Lives, Opinions, and Sayings of Famous Philosophers; the work, 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 (who fills all the last book), including the Eleatics and Sceptics. It is a collection of quotations and facts, and is of very great value.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Diogenes Laertius is in two volumes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674992030
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1925
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #184
Edition description:	9th printing/1st pub.1925-into.1972
Pages:	592
Sales rank:	746,810
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.25(d)
Language:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

Robert Drew Hicks (1850–1929) was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Selected Bibliography

Testimonia

Book I

Prologue

Thales

Solon

Chilon

Pittacus

Bias

Cleobulus

Periander

Anacharsis

Myson

Epimenides

Pherecydes

Book II

Anaximander

Anaximenes

Anaxagoras

Archelaus

Socrates

Xenophon

Aeschines

Aristippus

Phaedo

Euclides

Stilpo

Crito

Simon

Glaucon

Simmias

Cebes

Menedemus

Book III

Plato

Book IV

Speusippus

Xenocrates

Polemo

Crates

Crantor

Arcesilaus

Bion

Lacydes

Carneades

Clitomachus

Book V

Aristotle

Theophrastus

Strato

Lyco

Demetrius

Heraclides