![]() ![]() ![]() The Loeb Classical Library® is the only existing series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Diogenes Laertius is in two volumes. It is a very valuable collection of quotations and facts. 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. also means “cynic” in fact the very name of that sect proclaims that they gloried in their dog-like attributes, especially in snarling and biting.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. cOr “royal cynic.” It is impossible to preserve the double entendre here, for κύων, dog.Notice that Diogenes Laertius refers to the Life of Plato as already written see iii. Have been absent through illness on that occasion. Statement in the Phaedo that Plato himself is said to Terms ἐκάκισεν and διαβάλλων may be seen from the previous ![]() Said to have been in Aegina on the day when Socratesĭrank the hemlock. bIn the Introduction to the Phaedo, 59 c, Aristippus is.He derived pleasure from what was present, and did not toil to procure the enjoyment of something not present Hence Diogenes called him the king’s poodle c Timon, too, sneered at him for luxury in these words d: Hence he found more favour than anybody else with Dionysius, because he could always turn the situation to good account. He was capable of adapting himself to place, time and person, and of playing his part appropriately under whatever circumstances. a Not but what Theodorus in his work On Sects abuses him, and so does Plato in the dialogue On the Soul, b as has been shown elsewhere. Xenophon was no friend to Aristippus and for this reason he has made Socrates direct against Aristippus the discourse in which he denounces pleasure. And on one occasion the sum of twenty minae which he had sent was returned to him, Socrates declaring that the supernatural sign would not let him take it the very offer, in fact, annoyed him. Having come forward as a lecturer or sophist, as Phanias of Eresus, the Peripatetic, informs us, he was the first of the followers of Socrates to charge fees and to send money to his master. 435–350 b.c.)Īristippus was by birth a citizen of Cyrene and, as Aeschines informs us, was drawn to Athens by the fame of Socrates. ![]()
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