
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
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The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a comprehensive book written by Diogenes Laertius, a Greek biographer and historian. The book is a collection of biographical sketches and philosophical doctrines of the most prominent philosophers of ancient Greece. It covers the lives and works of more than 70 philosophers, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and many others.The book is divided into ten sections, each dedicated to a different school of philosophy. The first section covers the pre-Socratic philosophers, while the remaining sections cover the major philosophical sch...
Chapters (604)
- LIVES AND OPINIONS OF EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS.
- BOOK I.
- INTRODUCTION.
- LIFE OF THALES.
- THALES TO PHERECYDES.
- THALES TO SOLON.
- LIFE OF SOLON.
- PISISTRATUS TO SOLON.
- SOLON TO PERIANDER.
- SOLON TO EPIMENIDES.
- SOLON TO PISISTRATUS.
- SOLON TO CRŒSUS.
- LIFE OF CHILO.
- CHILO TO PERIANDER.
- LIFE OF PITTACUS.
- PITTACUS TO CRŒSUS.
- LIFE OF BIAS.
- LIFE OF CLEOBULUS.
- CLEOBULUS TO SOLON.
- LIFE OF PERIANDER.
- PERIANDER TO THE WISE MEN.
- PERIANDER TO PROCLES.
- LIFE OF ANACHARSIS, THE SCYTHIAN.
- ANACHARSIS TO CRŒSUS
- LIFE OF MYSON.
- LIFE OF EPIMENIDES.
- EPIMENIDES TO SOLON.
- LIFE OF PHERECYDES.
- PHERECYDES TO THALES.
- BOOK II.
- LIFE OF ANAXIMANDER.
- LIFE OF ANAXIMENES.
- ANAXIMENES TO PYTHAGORAS.
- ANAXIMENES TO PYTHAGORAS.
- LIFE OF ANAXAGORAS.
- LIFE OF ARCHELAUS.
- LIFE OF SOCRATES.
- LIFE OF XENOPHON.
- LIFE OF ÆSCHINES.
- LIFE OF ARISTIPPUS.
- LIFE OF PHÆDO.
- LIFE OF EUCLIDES.
- LIFE OF STILPO.
- LIFE OF CRITO.
- LIFE OF SIMON.
- LIFE OF GLAUCO.
- LIFE OF SIMIAS.
- LIFE OF CEBES.
- LIFE OF MENEDEMUS.
- BOOK III.
- LIFE OF PLATO.
- ARCHYTAS TO DIONYSIUS, GREETING.
- BOOK IV.
- LIFE OF SPEUSIPPUS.
- LIFE OF XENOCRATES.
- LIFE OF POLEMO.
- LIFE OF CRATES.
- LIFE OF CRANTOR.
- LIFE OF ARCESILAUS.
- ARCESILAUS TO THAUMASIAS.
- LIFE OF BION.
- LIFE OF LACYDES.
- LIFE OF CARNEADES.
- LIFE OF CLITOMACHUS.
- BOOK V.
- LIFE OF ARISTOTLE.
- LIFE OF THEOPHRASTUS.
- LIFE OF STRATO.
- LIFE OF LYCON.
- LIFE OF DEMETRIUS.
- LIFE OF HERACLIDES.
- BOOK VI.
- LIFE OF ANTISTHENES.
- LIFE OF DIOGENES.
- LIFE OF MONIMUS.
- LIFE OF ONESICRITUS.
- LIFE OF CRATES.
- LIFE OF METROCLES.
- LIFE OF HIPPARCHIA.
- LIFE OF MENIPPUS.
- THE LIFE OF MENEDEMUS.
- BOOK VII.
- LIFE OF ZENO.
- KING ANTIGONUS TO ZENO THE PHILOSOPHER, GREETING.
- ZENO TO KING ANTIGONUS, GREETING.
- LIFE OF ARISTON.
- LIFE OF HERILLUS
- LIFE OF DIONYSIUS
- LIFE OF CLEANTHES
- LIFE OF SPHÆRUS.
- LIFE OF CHRYSIPPUS.
- BOOK VIII.
- LIFE OF PYTHAGORAS.
- PYTHAGORAS TO ANAXIMENES.
- LIFE OF EMPEDOCLES.
- LIFE OF EPICHARMUS.
- LIFE OF ARCHYTAS.
- ARCHYTAS TO PLATO, GREETING.
- PLATO TO ARCHYTAS, GREETING.
- LIFE OF ALCMÆON.
- LIFE OF HIPPASUS.
- LIFE OF PHILOLAUS.
- LIFE OF EUDOXUS.
- BOOK IX.
- LIFE OF HERACLITUS.
- HERACLITUS, OF EPHESUS, TO KING DARIUS, THE SON OF HYSTASPES, GREETING.
- LIFE OF XENOPHANES.
- LIFE OF PARMENIDES.
- LIFE OF MELISSUS.
- LIFE OF ZENO, THE ELEATIC.
- LIFE OF LEUCIPPUS.
- LIFE OF DEMOCRITUS.
- LIFE OF PROTAGORAS.
- LIFE OF DIOGENES, OF APOLLONIA.
- LIFE OF ANAXARCHUS.
- LIFE OF PYRRHO.
- LIFE OF TIMON.
- BOOK X.
- LIFE OF EPICURUS.
- EPICURUS TO HERODOTUS, WISHING HE MAY DO WELL.
- EPICURUS TO PYTHOCLES, WISHING HE MAY DO WELL.
- EPICURUS TO MENŒCEUS, GREETING
- FOOTNOTES
- INDEX.
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