Edited by Cristina Rossitto, Alessandra Coppola, and Franco Biasutti, 185–203. Diogene Laerzio e la storia della filosofia antica: Con qualche considerazione di un editore. This book, relating the history of Diogenes’ modern interpretations, is not easy to read and proposes hypotheses not widely accepted.ĭorandi, Tiziano. Utrecht, The Netherlands: Onderwijs Media Instituut. Introduction à Diogène Laërce: Exposition de l’Altertumswissenschaft servant de préliminaires critiques à un lecture de l’œuvre. Desbordes 1990 presents a detailed history of Diogenes’ modern interpretations.ĭesbordes, Bernadette Anne. There is no early-21st-century general English reference book on Diogenes’ work, so the most recent works available are Hope 1930 and Mejer 1978. Gigante 1986, Gigante 1994, Goulet-Cazé 1999, and Mejer 1994 provide reliable introductions for the general reader. Diogenes’ Lives can be considered the earliest history of Greek philosophy to have come down to us, constituting a valuable source of information about the lives and doctrines of the major representatives of ancient philosophical schools up to the 1st century CE.ĭorandi 2013 presents a concise overview of Diogenes’ life and work a more detailed and scholarly treatment can be found in Schwartz 1903 and more recently Runia 1997 and Dorandi 2018. The books’ subjects are divided into Book 1: the sages Book 2: the Ionic school of Anaximander, Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, Socrates, and the Socratics Book 3: Plato Book 4: Plato’s successors in the Academy, from Speusippus to Clitomachus Book 5: Aristotle, Theophrastus, and their successors through Demetrius of Phaleron, including Heraclides of Pontus Book 6: Antisthenes, Diogenes, and the Cynics Book 7: Zeno and the Stoics (the surviving text covers as far as Chrysippus, but we presume it originally included philosophers through the time of the 1st-century- CE Roman Stoic Cornutus) Book 8: the Italic school, which includes Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, Empedocles, and Eudoxus Book 9: the so-called sporadic philosophers (Heraclitus and Xenophanes), Parmenides, Democritus, Protagoras, Pyrrho, and Timon and Book 10: Epicurus. The Lives are structured as follows: the prologue (Book 1, §§ 1–21) describes the origins of philosophy the distinction between sages and philosophers the succession of the philosophical schools and their separation into two main branches, Ionian philosophy and Italic philosophy and the division of philosophy into three parts-physics, ethics, and dialectics-and ten principal philosophical schools. Diogenes’ Lives, however, have survived almost intact, with the exception of the final part of Book 7. Diogenes’ collection of poems in different meters has been for the most part lost single poems that originally belonged to Diogenes’ Pammetros were later inserted into the narrative structure of the Lives by Diogenes himself. The Lives were dedicated to a woman who was an enthusiastic Platonist (Book 3, § 47 and Book 10, § 29) and whose identity is unknown. Diogenes Laertius (3rd century CE) is the author of a collection of poems entitled Pammetros and of a work in ten books known as the Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers.
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