Diogenes Laertius

Die Berichte über das Leben von 62 antiken Philosophen, wurden etwa 220 n.Chr. verfasst. Die Darstellungen des Diogenes Laertius, einem spätantiken Philosophiehistoriker, der im 3. Jahrhundert n.Chr. lebte, bieten neben den philosophischen Positionen Lebensbeschreibungen der antiken Philosophen und Denker – von Anaximander über Demokrit bis zu Epikur – und stellen damit ein wichtiges und viel diskutiertes philosophiehistorisches Dokument dar. Diogenes gliedert seine Viten in Nachrichten über...

"The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laertius (translated by Charles Duke Yonge). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our...

Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is collection of biographies of the Greek philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius, written in Greek, probably in the first half of the third century AD. The book professes to give an account of the lives and sayings of the Greek philosophers. Laërtius treats his subject in two divisions which he describes as the Ionian and the Italian schools. The biographies of the former begin with Anaximander, and end with Clitomachus, Theophrastus and Chrysippus; the...