Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume II: Books 6-10

by Diogenes Laertius, R. D. Hicks

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:	9780674992047
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1925
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #185
Edition description:	10th printing/1st pub.1925
Pages:	720
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.50(d)
Language:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Book VI

Antisthenes

Diogenes

Monimus

Onesicritus

Crates

Metrocles

Hipparchia

Menippus

Menedemus

Book VII

Zeno

Ariston

Herillus

Dionysius

Cleanthes

Sphaerus

Chrysippus

Book VIII

Pythagoras

Empedocles

Epicharmus

Archytas

Alchaeon

Hippasus

Philolaus

Eudoxus

Book IX

Heraclitus

Xenophanes

Parmenides

Melissus

Zeno of Elea

Leucippus

Democritus

Protagoras

Diogenes of Apollonia

Anaxarchus

Pyrrho

Timon

Book X

Epicurus

Index Nominum Et Rerum

Index Fontium