Author
Diogenes Laertius
3rd-century Roman biographer of Greek philosophers. From Wikidata; Wikipedia.
- Lived
- 2nd–3rd c. AD
- Wrote in
- 3rd c. AD
- Kinds of writing
- Biography
- In the library
- 1 work, 1 with an English translation; 130,661 words analysed
What Diogenes Laertius wrote
In The Painted Stoa
Entries that quote or point to Diogenes Laertius's Greek.
The philosopher who lived in a jar and told Alexander to moveDiogenes the CynicDiogenes of Sinope owned a cloak, a staff, a bag and, for a while, a cup, until he saw a child drinking from its hands and threw the cup away.The woman who left the loom for philosophyHipparchia the CynicAround 300 BC a young woman from Thrace threatened to kill herself unless she was allowed to marry a penniless philosopher.The democracy that put a philosopher to deathThe trial of SocratesIn the spring of 399 BC, a jury of about five hundred Athenian citizens found the philosopher Socrates, aged about seventy, guilty of not believing in the city's gods, of bringing in new divine beings, and of corrupting the young.The mathematician who would not eat beans, and who remembered his past livesPythagoras and the beansEvery schoolchild knows Pythagoras' theorem.
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- The most mentioned words in Diogenes Laertius (the Census)
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