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Lives, Teachings, and Sayings of Famous Philosophers

Diogenes Laertius

  • 560 pages · about 9 hours
  • First published 1541
  • 38 editions
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Good for readers who want: a true life story, Stoic philosophy, and a long read.

  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Biography
  • Stoics
  • Philosophy, ancient
  • Ancient Philosophers
  • Philosophers

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3 About Diogenes Laertius

 

Diogenes Laërtius ( dy-OJ-in-eez lay-UR-shee-əs; Ancient Greek: Διογένης Λαέρτιος, romanized: Diogénēs Laértios, IPA:; fl. 3rd century CE) was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Little is definitively known about his life, but his surviving work, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, remains a primary source for the history of ancient Greek philosophy.

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