The Loeb Classical Library edition of Diogenes Laertius is in two volumes. Diogenes Laertius carefully compiled his information from hundreds of sources and enriches his accounts with numerous quotations. For we recognized this as our first innate good, and this is our starting point for every choice and avoidance and we come to this by judging every good by the criterion of. This rich compendium on the lives and doctrines of philosophers ranges over three centuries, from Thales to Epicurus (to whom the whole tenth book is devoted) 45 important figures are portrayed. It is a very valuable collection of quotations and facts. Letter to Menoeceus: Diogenes Laertius 10.121135 (attributed to Epicurus) And this is why we say that pleasure is the starting-point and goal of living blessedly. His history, in ten books, is divided unscientifically into two “Successions” or sections: “Ionian” (from Anaximander to Theophrastus and Chrysippus, including the Socratic schools) and “Italian” (from Pythagoras to Epicurus, including the Eleatics and sceptics). Diogenes Laertius carefully compiled his information from hundreds of sources and enriches his accounts with numerous quotations.ĭiogenes Laertius lived probably in the earlier half of the third century CE, his ancestry and birthplace being unknown. This rich compendium on the lives and doctrines of philosophers ranges over three centuries, from Thales to Epicurus (to whom the whole tenth book is devoted) 45 important figures are portrayed. The digital Loeb Classical Library extends the founding mission of James Loeb with an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature.
