The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

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Author

Diogenes Laertius

Credits

Ted Garvin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion

Subject

Philosophers, Ancient -- Biography

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 57342

Release Date

June 16, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.PREFACE. — LIVES AND OPINIONS OF EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS.
4. 4.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.
5. 5.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.
6. 6.BOOK III. — LIFE OF PLATO. — ARCHYTAS TO DIONYSIUS, GREETING.
7. 7.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.
8. 8.BOOK V. — LIFE OF ARISTOTLE. — LIFE OF THEOPHRASTUS. — LIFE OF STRATO. — LIFE OF LYCON. — LIFE OF DEMETRIUS. — LIFE OF HERACLIDES.
9. 9.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.
10. 10.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.
11. 11.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.
12. 12.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.
13. 13.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
14. 14.FOOTNOTES
15. 15.INDEX.
16. 16.Transcriber’s Note

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