Lives EN
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~180,000 words · 848 passages
Cite this work
- APADiogenes Laertius. (n.d.). Lives EN. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/diogenes-laertius/lives-en
- MLADiogenes Laertius. "Lives EN." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/diogenes-laertius/lives-en.
- ChicagoDiogenes Laertius. Lives EN. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/diogenes-laertius/lives-en.
What it is about
Diogenes Laertius's Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, in English.
Context and history
Worth knowing: the catalogue holds TWO entries for this same work — this one and another under the longer title. They are not different books. And the point about Diogenes bears repeating: he was no philosopher but a compiler, mixing verifiable fact with anecdote and rumour without signalling it, and he is nevertheless irreplaceable, because for many ancient philosophers he is the only source that has reached us. He is cited by book and section, not by page.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
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