DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-A042-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved March 27, 2023, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/diogenes-laertius-c-ad-300-50/v-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved March 27, 2023, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/diogenes-laertius-c-ad-300-50/v-1
Article Summary
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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