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Diogenes Laertius (c. AD 300–50)

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10.4324/9780415249126-A042-1
DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-A042-1
Version: v1,  Published online: 1998
Retrieved March 19, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/diogenes-laertius-c-ad-300-50/v-1

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Diogenes Laertius is the author of a famous work entitled Lives of the Philosophers consisting of nearly one hundred accounts of individual philosophers. These contain mainly biographical information, but sometimes also include doctrinal summaries. The work is extremely valuable because it preserves much information on Greek philosophers from sources now lost.

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Runia, David T.. Diogenes Laertius (c. AD 300–50), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-A042-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/diogenes-laertius-c-ad-300-50/v-1.
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