The MouseionDiogenes LaertiusLives of Eminent Philosophers
Lives of Eminent PhilosophersΒίοι καὶ γνῶμαι τῶν ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ εὐδοκιμησάντων
By Diogenes Laertius. Vitae philosophorum · English title from the library's translation
- Kind of writing
- Biography
- Written
- 3rd c. AD
- Length
- 130,661 words analysed
- Vocabulary
- 69% common words
- In the library
- 1 Greek text, 1 English translation
The texts
Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.
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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.