• invariably refer to a "Laertius Diogenes", and this form of the name is repeated by Sopater and the Suda. The modern form "Diogenes Laertius" is much rarer,...
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    Diogenes (/daɪˈɒdʒɪniːz/ dy-OJ-in-eez; Ancient Greek: Διογένης, romanized: Diogénēs [di.oɡénɛːs]), also known as Diogenes the Cynic (Διογένης ὁ Κυνικός...
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    as evidence of Diogenes' disregard for authority, wealth, and decorum. Plutarch and Diogenes Laërtius report that Alexander and Diogenes died on the same...
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    (Penguin, 2012) Diogenes the Cynic: Sayings and Anecdotes: With Other Popular Moralists, ed. R. Hard (Oxford, 2012) Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions...
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    pages 2-4 Navia, Diogenes the Cynic, page 100 Navia, Diogenes the Cynic, pages 34, 112-3 Xenophon, Symposium, iv. 34–44. Laërtius 1925, § 15. Brancacci...
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    embraced a wide range of subjects, and the list of them given by Diogenes Laërtius shows that he was a man of the most extensive acquirements. These...
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    the whole poem. Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 51 Aristotle, Poetics, 1, ap. Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 57. Apollonius, ap. Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 52, comp...
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    multitude." Diogenes Laërtius relates several stories of an expensive, gold tripod or bowl that is to go to the most wise. In one version (that Laërtius credits...
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    Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 181. cf. Green 1993, p. 639 Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 179. cf. Dorandi 1999, p. 40 Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 184 Diogenes Laërtius, vii...
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    "Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VII, Chapter 1. Zeno (333–261 B.C.)". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 19 March 2018. Laërtius...
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    trainer. Diogenes Laërtius records Milo's wife's name as Myia. Iamblichus mentions Theano as the wife of Brontinus of Croton. Diogenes Laërtius states that...
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    He was said to be of Phoenician descent. The ancient biographer Diogenes Laertius attributes the aphorism, "Know thyself", engraved on the front facade...
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    virtue and peace of mind. Few writings by Epicurus have survived. Diogenes Laërtius preserves three letters written by Epicurus, as well as a list of...
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    life of Heraclitus is the doxographer Diogenes Laërtius. Although most of the information provided by Laertius is unreliable, and the ancient stories...
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    ὅλων ἀτόμους καὶ κενόν, τὰ δ'ἀλλα πάντα νενομίσθαι [δοξάζεσθαι]. (Diogenes Laërtius, Democritus, Vol. IX, 44) Now his principal doctrines were these....
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    from Diogenes Laertius; his work on Pyrrho's life drew primarily from the works of mid-third century BC biographer Antigonus of Carystus. Diogenes Laërtius...
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    located in Magna Graecia. Diogenes Laertius says that his father was Pires, and that he belonged to a rich and noble family. Laertius transmits two divergent...
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  • Diogenes of Apollonia (/daɪˈɒdʒɪniːz/ dy-OJ-in-eez; Ancient Greek: Διογένης ὁ Ἀπολλωνιάτης, romanized: Diogénēs ho Apollōniátēs; fl. 5th century BC) was...
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    his philosophy is due to later authors, particularly the biographer Diogenes Laërtius, the Epicurean Roman poet Lucretius and the Epicurean philosopher...
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    that have been traditionally identified as authentic, as given in Diogenes Laërtius, is included below in alphabetical order. The authenticity of some...
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    and Roman Biography and Mythology. Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 85 Diogenes Laërtius, iii. 9, viii. 15 Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 15, 55, 84, 85, iii. 9; Aulus...
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  • 'working-philosopher'. He is known mostly from the account given in Diogenes Laërtius' Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers. He is also mentioned...
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    πλατύς, romanized: platys, lit. 'broad') is a nickname. According to Diogenes Laërtius, writing hundreds of years after Plato's death, his birth name was...
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    biographer Diogenes Laertius reports that Xenophanes was born in Colophon, a city that once existed in Ionia, in present-day Turkey. Laertius stated that...
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    according to Diogenes Laërtius 1925c, § 87, 365 BC is a reasonable guess for his year of birth. Laërtius 1925c, § 87–88. Laërtius 1925c, § 93. Laërtius 1925c...
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    Greek language. In the Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes Laërtius observed that Xenophon was known as the "Attic Muse" because of the...
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    information about Epicharmus comes from the writings of Athenaeus, Suda and Diogenes Laërtius, although fragments and comments come up in a host of other ancient...
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    him as contemporary with Hippocrates, the father of Peisistratus. Diogenes Laërtius states that he was an old man in the 52nd Olympiad (572 BC), and that...
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  • disputed. Diogenes Laërtius states that Plato "was born, according to some writers, in Aegina in the house of Phidiades the son of Thales". Diogenes mentions...
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    maxim." Diogenes Laërtius, i. 82 Diogenes Laërtius, i. 84 Diogenes Laërtius, i. 84; Strabo xiv. 1. 12 Diogenes Laërtius, i. 41 Diogenes Laërtius, viii....
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