Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: The Lives and Sayings of the Greek Philosophers

Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius and translated by Robert Drew Hicks. Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a biography of the Greek philosophers by Diogenes Laertius, written in Greek, perhaps in the first half of the third century AD. There are some who say that the study of philosophy had its beginning among the barbarians. They urge that the Persians have had their Magi, the Babylonians or Assyrians their Chaldaeans, and the Indians their Gymnosophists; and...