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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A" title="ديوجانس اللايرتي – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ديوجانس اللايرتي" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leartl%C4%B1_Diogen" title="Leartlı Diogen – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Leartlı Diogen" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8B%D1%8F%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%86%D0%BA%D1%96" title="Дыяген Лаэрцкі – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Дыяген Лаэрцкі" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B9" title="Диоген Лаерций – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Диоген Лаерций" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_Laertios" title="Diogenes Laertios – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Diogenes Laertios" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di%C3%B2genes_Laerci" title="Diògenes Laerci – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Diògenes Laerci" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADogen%C3%A9s_Laertios" title="Díogenés Laertios – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Díogenés Laertios" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_Laertius" title="Diogenes Laertius – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Diogenes Laertius" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_Laertios" title="Diogenes Laertios – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Diogenes Laertios" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_Laertios" title="Diogenes Laertios – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Diogenes Laertios" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%BF_%CE%9B%CE%B1%CE%AD%CF%81%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82" title="Διογένης ο Λαέρτιος – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Διογένης ο Λαέρτιος" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di%C3%B3genes_Laercio" title="Diógenes Laercio – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Diógenes Laercio" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogeno_Laertio" title="Diogeno Laertio – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Diogeno Laertio" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ext mw-list-item"><a href="https://ext.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di%C3%B3geni_Laerciu" title="Diógeni Laerciu – Extremaduran" lang="ext" hreflang="ext" data-title="Diógeni Laerciu" data-language-autonym="Estremeñu" data-language-local-name="Extremaduran" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Estremeñu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_Laerzio" title="Diogenes Laerzio – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Diogenes Laerzio" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%98%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1%D8%AA%DB%8C" title="دیوژن لائرتی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="دیوژن لائرتی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diog%C3%A8ne_La%C3%ABrce" title="Diogène Laërce – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Diogène Laërce" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di%C3%B3xenes_Laercio" title="Dióxenes Laercio – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Dióxenes Laercio" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%94%94%EC%98%A4%EA%B2%8C%EB%84%A4%EC%8A%A4_%EB%9D%BC%EC%97%90%EB%A5%B4%ED%8B%B0%EC%98%A4%EC%8A%A4" title="디오게네스 라에르티오스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="디오게네스 라에르티오스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B4%D5%AB%D5%B8%D5%A3%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%A5%D5%BD_%D4%BC%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%BF%D5%A1%D6%81%D5%AB" title="Դիոգենես Լայերտացի – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Դիոգենես Լայերտացի" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogen_Laertije" title="Diogen Laertije – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Diogen Laertije" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_Laertios" title="Diogenes Laertios – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Diogenes Laertios" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADogenes_Laert%C3%ADos" title="Díogenes Laertíos – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Díogenes Laertíos" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogene_Laerzio" title="Diogene Laerzio – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Diogene Laerzio" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%99%D7%95%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%A1_%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1" title="דיוגנס לארטיוס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="דיוגנס לארטיוס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%82%D1%81" title="Диоген Лаэртс – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Диоген Лаэртс" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_Laertius" title="Diogenes Laertius – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Diogenes Laertius" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_La%C3%ABrtius" title="Diogenes 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data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other people named Diogenes, see <a href="/wiki/Diogenes_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Diogenes (disambiguation)">Diogenes (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p><b>Diogenes Laërtius</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/aɪ/: 'i' in 'tide'">aɪ</span><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="/ɒ/: 'o' in 'body'">ɒ</span><span title="/dʒ/: 'j' in 'jam'">dʒ</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="'z' in 'zoom'">z</span></span><span class="wrap"> </span><span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/ɜːr/: 'ur' in 'fur'">ɜːr</span><span title="/ʃ/: 'sh' in 'shy'">ʃ</span><span title="/i/: 'y' in 'happy'">i</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling">dy-<span style="font-size:90%">OJ</span>-in-eez lay-<span style="font-size:90%">UR</span>-shee-əs</i></a>;<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1248666159">.mw-parser-output .tfd-dated{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .tfd-default{border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);clear:both;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tfd-tiny{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .tfd-inline{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1)}.mw-parser-output .tfd-sidebar{border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);text-align:center;position:relative}@media(min-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .tfd-sidebar{clear:right;float:right;width:22em}}</style><span class="tfd tfd-dated tfd-tiny"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2024_November_12#Template:Lang-grc-gre" title="Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 November 12">‹See Tfd›</a></span><a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Διογένης Λαέρτιος</span></span>, <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn">Laertios</i></span>; <abbr title="floruit ('flourished' – known to have been active at a particular time or during a particular period)">fl.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 3rd century AD</span>) was a biographer of the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">Greek</a> <a href="/wiki/Philosopher" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosopher">philosophers</a>. Little is definitively known about his life, but his surviving <i>Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers</i> is a principal source for the history of <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_philosophy" title="Ancient Greek philosophy">ancient Greek philosophy</a>. His reputation is controversial among scholars because he often repeats information from his sources without critically evaluating it. He also frequently focuses on trivial or insignificant details of his subjects' lives while ignoring important details of their philosophical teachings and he sometimes fails to distinguish between earlier and later teachings of specific philosophical schools.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> However, unlike many other ancient secondary sources, Diogenes Laërtius generally reports philosophical teachings without attempting to reinterpret or expand on them, which means his accounts are often closer to the primary sources. Due to the loss of so many of the primary sources on which Diogenes relied, his work has become the foremost surviving source on the history of Greek philosophy. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diogenes_Laertius&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Diogenes_Laertius.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Diogenes_Laertius.jpg/220px-Diogenes_Laertius.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="285" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Diogenes_Laertius.jpg/330px-Diogenes_Laertius.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Diogenes_Laertius.jpg 2x" data-file-width="399" data-file-height="517" /></a><figcaption>17th-century engraving</figcaption></figure> <p>Laërtius must have lived after <a href="/wiki/Sextus_Empiricus" title="Sextus Empiricus">Sextus Empiricus</a> (c. 200), whom he mentions, and before <a href="/wiki/Stephanus_of_Byzantium" title="Stephanus of Byzantium">Stephanus of Byzantium</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sopater_of_Apamea" title="Sopater of Apamea">Sopater of Apamea</a> (c. 500), who quote him. His work makes no mention of <a href="/wiki/Neoplatonism" title="Neoplatonism">Neoplatonism</a>, even though it is addressed to a woman who was "an enthusiastic Platonist".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925a§_47_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925a§_47-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hence he is assumed to have flourished in the first half of the 3rd century, during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Severus" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Severus">Alexander Severus</a> (222–235) and his successors.<sup id="cite_ref-eb1911_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb1911-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The precise form of his name is uncertain. The ancient manuscripts invariably refer to a "Laertius Diogenes", and this form of the name is repeated by Sopater<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Suda" title="Suda">Suda</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The modern form "Diogenes Laertius" is much rarer, used by Stephanus of Byzantium,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in a <a href="/wiki/Lemma_(psycholinguistics)" title="Lemma (psycholinguistics)">lemma</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Greek_Anthology" title="Greek Anthology">Greek Anthology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is also referred to as "Laertes"<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or simply "Diogenes".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The origin of the name "Laertius" is also uncertain. Stephanus of Byzantium refers to him as "Διογένης ὁ Λαερτιεύς" (<i>Diogenes ho Laertieus</i>),<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> implying that he was the native of some town, perhaps the Laerte in <a href="/wiki/Caria" title="Caria">Caria</a> (or another Laerte in <a href="/wiki/Cilicia" title="Cilicia">Cilicia</a>). Another suggestion is that one of his ancestors had for a patron a member of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman</a> family of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=La%C3%ABrtii&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Laërtii (page does not exist)">Laërtii</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith18701028_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith18701028-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The prevailing modern theory is that "Laertius" is a nickname (derived from the <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homeric</a> epithet <i>Diogenes Laertiade</i>, used in addressing <a href="/wiki/Odysseus" title="Odysseus">Odysseus</a>) used to distinguish him from the many other people called Diogenes in the ancient world.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xvi_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELong1972xvi-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His home town is unknown (at best uncertain, even according to a hypothesis that <i>Laertius</i> refers to his origin). A disputed passage in his writings has been used to suggest that it was <a href="/wiki/Nicaea" title="Nicaea">Nicaea</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bithynia" title="Bithynia">Bithynia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-diogix109_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-diogix109-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECraig199886_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECraig199886-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It has been suggested that Diogenes was an <a href="/wiki/Epicurean" class="mw-redirect" title="Epicurean">Epicurean</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Pyrrhonism" title="Pyrrhonism">Pyrrhonist</a>. He passionately defends <a href="/wiki/Epicurus" title="Epicurus">Epicurus</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925c§_3–12_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925c§_3–12-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in Book 10, which is of high quality and contains three long letters attributed to Epicurus explaining Epicurean doctrines.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925c§_34–135_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925c§_34–135-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is impartial to all schools, in the manner of the Pyrrhonists, and he carries the succession of Pyrrhonism further than that of the other schools. At one point, he even seems to refer to the Pyrrhonists as "our school."<sup id="cite_ref-diogix109_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-diogix109-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the other hand, most of these points can be explained by the way he uncritically copies from his sources. It is by no means certain that he adhered to any school, and he is usually more attentive to biographical details.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xvii–xviii_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELong1972xvii–xviii-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to the <i>Lives,</i> Diogenes refers to another work that he had written in verse on famous men, in various metres, which he called <i>Epigrammata</i> or <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pammetros&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pammetros (page does not exist)">Pammetros</a></i> (Πάμμετρος).<sup id="cite_ref-eb1911_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb1911-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lives_and_Opinions_of_Eminent_Philosophers"><i>Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diogenes_Laertius&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dionysiou_Monastery_Codex_90.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Dionysiou_Monastery_Codex_90.jpg/220px-Dionysiou_Monastery_Codex_90.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Dionysiou_Monastery_Codex_90.jpg/330px-Dionysiou_Monastery_Codex_90.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Dionysiou_Monastery_Codex_90.jpg/440px-Dionysiou_Monastery_Codex_90.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="410" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Dionysiou_monastery" class="mw-redirect" title="Dionysiou monastery">Dionysiou monastery</a>, codex 90, a 13th-century manuscript containing selections from <a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a> and (shown here) Diogenes Laertius</figcaption></figure> <p>The work by which he is known, <i>Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers</i> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248666159"><span class="tfd tfd-dated tfd-tiny"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2024_November_12#Template:Lang-grc-gre" title="Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 November 12">‹See Tfd›</a></span><a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Βίοι καὶ γνῶμαι τῶν ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ εὐδοκιμησάντων</span></span>; <a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">Vitae Philosophorum</i>), was written in Greek and professes to give an account of the lives and opinions of the Greek philosophers. </p><p>Although it is at best an uncritical and unphilosophical compilation, its value, as giving us an insight into the private lives of the Greek sages, led <a href="/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne" title="Michel de Montaigne">Montaigne</a> to write that he wished that instead of one Laërtius there had been a dozen.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the other hand, modern scholars have advised that we treat Diogenes' testimonia with care, especially when he fails to cite his sources: "Diogenes has acquired an importance out of all proportion to his merits because the loss of many primary sources and of the earlier secondary compilations has accidentally left him the chief continuous source for the history of Greek philosophy".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xix_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELong1972xix-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Organization_of_the_work">Organization of the work</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diogenes_Laertius&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Organization of the work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Diogenes divides his subjects into two "schools" which he describes as the <a href="/wiki/Ionian_School_(philosophy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ionian School (philosophy)">Ionian/Ionic</a> and the Italian/Italic; the division is somewhat dubious and appears to be drawn from the lost <a href="/wiki/Doxography" title="Doxography">doxography</a> of <a href="/wiki/Sotion" title="Sotion">Sotion</a>. The biographies of the "Ionian school" begin with <a href="/wiki/Anaximander" title="Anaximander">Anaximander</a> and end with <a href="/wiki/Clitomachus_(philosopher)" title="Clitomachus (philosopher)">Clitomachus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Theophrastus" title="Theophrastus">Theophrastus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chrysippus" title="Chrysippus">Chrysippus</a>; the "Italian" begins with <a href="/wiki/Pythagoras" title="Pythagoras">Pythagoras</a> and ends with <a href="/wiki/Epicurus" title="Epicurus">Epicurus</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Socrates#Legacy" title="Socrates">Socratic school</a>, with its various branches, is classed with the Ionic; while the <a href="/wiki/Eleatics" title="Eleatics">Eleatics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pyrrhonism" title="Pyrrhonism">Pyrrhonists</a> are treated under the Italic. He also includes his own poetic verse, albeit pedestrian, about the philosophers he discusses. </p> <table border="0" style="margin:1em auto; border: 1px solid #999; background-color:#FFFFFF"> <tbody><tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><b>Books 1–7: Ionian Philosophy</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC">Book 1: The <a href="/wiki/Seven_Sages_of_Greece" title="Seven Sages of Greece">Seven Sages</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#EFEFEF"><a href="/wiki/Thales" class="mw-redirect" title="Thales">Thales</a>, <a href="/wiki/Solon" title="Solon">Solon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chilon_of_Sparta" title="Chilon of Sparta">Chilon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pittacus_of_Mytilene" title="Pittacus of Mytilene">Pittacus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bias_of_Priene" title="Bias of Priene">Bias</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cleobulus" title="Cleobulus">Cleobulus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Periander" title="Periander">Periander</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anacharsis" title="Anacharsis">Anacharsis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Myson_of_Chenae" title="Myson of Chenae">Myson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Epimenides" title="Epimenides">Epimenides</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pherecydes_of_Syros" title="Pherecydes of Syros">Pherecydes</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC">Book 2: Socrates, with predecessors and followers </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#EFEFEF"><a href="/wiki/Anaximander" title="Anaximander">Anaximander</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anaximenes_of_Miletus" title="Anaximenes of Miletus">Anaximenes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anaxagoras" title="Anaxagoras">Anaxagoras</a>, <a href="/wiki/Archelaus_(philosopher)" title="Archelaus (philosopher)">Archelaus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Socrates" title="Socrates">Socrates</a>, <a href="/wiki/Xenophon" title="Xenophon">Xenophon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aeschines_of_Sphettus" title="Aeschines of Sphettus">Aeschines</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aristippus" title="Aristippus">Aristippus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Phaedo_of_Elis" title="Phaedo of Elis">Phaedo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Euclid_of_Megara" title="Euclid of Megara">Euclides</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stilpo" title="Stilpo">Stilpo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crito_of_Alopece" title="Crito of Alopece">Crito</a>, <a href="/wiki/Simon_the_Shoemaker" title="Simon the Shoemaker">Simon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Glaucon" title="Glaucon">Glaucon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Simmias_of_Thebes" title="Simmias of Thebes">Simmias</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cebes" title="Cebes">Cebes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Menedemus" title="Menedemus">Menedemus of Eretria</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC">Book 3: Plato </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#EFEFEF"><a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC">Book 4: The <a href="/wiki/Platonic_Academy" title="Platonic Academy">Academy</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#EFEFEF"><a href="/wiki/Speusippus" title="Speusippus">Speusippus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Xenocrates" title="Xenocrates">Xenocrates</a>, <a href="/wiki/Polemon_(scholarch)" title="Polemon (scholarch)">Polemo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crates_of_Athens" title="Crates of Athens">Crates of Athens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crantor" title="Crantor">Crantor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arcesilaus" title="Arcesilaus">Arcesilaus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bion_of_Borysthenes" title="Bion of Borysthenes">Bion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lacydes_of_Cyrene" title="Lacydes of Cyrene">Lacydes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carneades" title="Carneades">Carneades</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clitomachus_(philosopher)" title="Clitomachus (philosopher)">Clitomachus</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC">Book 5: The <a href="/wiki/Peripatetics" class="mw-redirect" title="Peripatetics">Peripatetics</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#EFEFEF"><a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Theophrastus" title="Theophrastus">Theophrastus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Strato_of_Lampsacus" title="Strato of Lampsacus">Strato</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lyco_of_Troas" title="Lyco of Troas">Lyco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Demetrius_Phalereus" class="mw-redirect" title="Demetrius Phalereus">Demetrius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Heraclides_Ponticus" title="Heraclides Ponticus">Heraclides</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC">Book 6: The <a href="/wiki/Cynicism_(philosophy)" title="Cynicism (philosophy)">Cynics</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#EFEFEF"><a href="/wiki/Antisthenes" title="Antisthenes">Antisthenes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Diogenes_of_Sinope" class="mw-redirect" title="Diogenes of Sinope">Diogenes of Sinope</a>, <a href="/wiki/Monimus" title="Monimus">Monimus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Onesicritus" title="Onesicritus">Onesicritus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crates_of_Thebes" title="Crates of Thebes">Crates of Thebes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Metrocles" title="Metrocles">Metrocles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hipparchia_of_Maroneia" title="Hipparchia of Maroneia">Hipparchia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Menippus" title="Menippus">Menippus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Menedemus_the_Cynic" title="Menedemus the Cynic">Menedemus</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC">Book 7: The <a href="/wiki/Stoics" class="mw-redirect" title="Stoics">Stoics</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#EFEFEF"><a href="/wiki/Zeno_of_Citium" title="Zeno of Citium">Zeno of Citium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aristo_of_Chios" title="Aristo of Chios">Aristo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Herillus" title="Herillus">Herillus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dionysius_the_Renegade" title="Dionysius the Renegade">Dionysius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cleanthes" title="Cleanthes">Cleanthes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sphaerus" title="Sphaerus">Sphaerus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chrysippus" title="Chrysippus">Chrysippus</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><b>Books 8–10: Italian Philosophy</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC">Book 8: <a href="/wiki/Pythagoreanism" title="Pythagoreanism">Pythagoreans</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#EFEFEF"><a href="/wiki/Pythagoras" title="Pythagoras">Pythagoras</a>, <a href="/wiki/Empedocles" title="Empedocles">Empedocles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Epicharmus_of_Kos" title="Epicharmus of Kos">Epicharmus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Archytas" title="Archytas">Archytas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alcmaeon_of_Croton" title="Alcmaeon of Croton">Alcmaeon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hippasus" title="Hippasus">Hippasus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philolaus" title="Philolaus">Philolaus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eudoxus_of_Cnidus" title="Eudoxus of Cnidus">Eudoxus</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC">Book 9: (<a href="/wiki/Eleatics" title="Eleatics">Eleatics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Atomism" title="Atomism">Atomists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pyrrhonism" title="Pyrrhonism">Pyrrhonists</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#EFEFEF"><a href="/wiki/Heraclitus" title="Heraclitus">Heraclitus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Xenophanes" title="Xenophanes">Xenophanes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Parmenides" title="Parmenides">Parmenides</a>, <a href="/wiki/Melissus_of_Samos" title="Melissus of Samos">Melissus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zeno_of_Elea" title="Zeno of Elea">Zeno of Elea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leucippus" title="Leucippus">Leucippus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Democritus" title="Democritus">Democritus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Protagoras" title="Protagoras">Protagoras</a>, <a href="/wiki/Diogenes_of_Apollonia" title="Diogenes of Apollonia">Diogenes of Apollonia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anaxarchus" title="Anaxarchus">Anaxarchus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pyrrho" title="Pyrrho">Pyrrho</a>, <a href="/wiki/Timon_of_Phlius" title="Timon of Phlius">Timon</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC">Book 10: Epicurus </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#EFEFEF"><a href="/wiki/Epicurus" title="Epicurus">Epicurus</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The work contains incidental remarks on many other philosophers, and there are useful accounts concerning <a href="/wiki/Hegesias_of_Cyrene" title="Hegesias of Cyrene">Hegesias</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anniceris" title="Anniceris">Anniceris</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Theodorus_the_Atheist" title="Theodorus the Atheist">Theodorus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Cyrenaics" title="Cyrenaics">Cyrenaics</a>);<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925b§_93–104_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925b§_93–104-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Persaeus" title="Persaeus">Persaeus</a> (Stoic);<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925c§_36_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925c§_36-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Metrodorus_of_Lampsacus_(the_younger)" title="Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the younger)">Metrodorus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hermarchus" title="Hermarchus">Hermarchus</a> (Epicureans).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925d§_22–26_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925d§_22–26-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Book VII is incomplete and breaks off during the life of <a href="/wiki/Chrysippus" title="Chrysippus">Chrysippus</a>. From a table of contents in one of the manuscripts (manuscript P), this book is known to have continued with <a href="/wiki/Zeno_of_Tarsus" title="Zeno of Tarsus">Zeno of Tarsus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Diogenes_of_Babylon" title="Diogenes of Babylon">Diogenes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apollodorus_of_Seleucia" title="Apollodorus of Seleucia">Apollodorus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boethus_of_Sidon_(Stoic)" title="Boethus of Sidon (Stoic)">Boethus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mnesarchus_of_Athens" title="Mnesarchus of Athens">Mnesarchus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mnasagoras" title="Mnasagoras">Mnasagoras</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nestor_of_Tarsus" title="Nestor of Tarsus">Nestor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Basilides_(Stoic)" title="Basilides (Stoic)">Basilides</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dardanus_of_Athens" title="Dardanus of Athens">Dardanus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Antipater_of_Tarsus" title="Antipater of Tarsus">Antipater</a>, <a href="/wiki/Heraclides_of_Tarsus" title="Heraclides of Tarsus">Heraclides</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sosigenes_(Stoic)" title="Sosigenes (Stoic)">Sosigenes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Panaetius" title="Panaetius">Panaetius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hecato_of_Rhodes" title="Hecato of Rhodes">Hecato</a>, <a href="/wiki/Posidonius" title="Posidonius">Posidonius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Athenodoros_Cordylion" title="Athenodoros Cordylion">Athenodorus</a>, another <a href="/wiki/Athenodoros_Cananites" class="mw-redirect" title="Athenodoros Cananites">Athenodorus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Antipater_of_Tyre" title="Antipater of Tyre">Antipater</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arius_Didymus" title="Arius Didymus">Arius</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Annaeus_Cornutus" title="Lucius Annaeus Cornutus">Cornutus</a>. The whole of Book X is devoted to Epicurus, and contains three long letters written by Epicurus, which explain Epicurean doctrines. </p><p>His chief authorities were <a href="/wiki/Favorinus" title="Favorinus">Favorinus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Diocles_of_Magnesia" title="Diocles of Magnesia">Diocles of Magnesia</a>, but his work also draws (either directly or indirectly) on books by <a href="/wiki/Antisthenes_of_Rhodes" title="Antisthenes of Rhodes">Antisthenes of Rhodes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Polyhistor" title="Alexander Polyhistor">Alexander Polyhistor</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Demetrius_of_Magnesia" title="Demetrius of Magnesia">Demetrius of Magnesia</a>, as well as works by <a href="/wiki/Hippobotus" title="Hippobotus">Hippobotus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aristippus" title="Aristippus">Aristippus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Panaetius" title="Panaetius">Panaetius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apollodorus_of_Athens" title="Apollodorus of Athens">Apollodorus of Athens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sosicrates" title="Sosicrates">Sosicrates</a>, <a href="/wiki/Satyrus_the_Peripatetic" title="Satyrus the Peripatetic">Satyrus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sotion" title="Sotion">Sotion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neanthes_of_Cyzicus" title="Neanthes of Cyzicus">Neanthes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hermippus_of_Smyrna" title="Hermippus of Smyrna">Hermippus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Antigonus_of_Carystus" title="Antigonus of Carystus">Antigonus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Heraclides_Lembus" title="Heraclides Lembus">Heraclides</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hieronymus_of_Rhodes" title="Hieronymus of Rhodes">Hieronymus</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pamphile_of_Epidaurus" title="Pamphile of Epidaurus">Pamphila</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xxi_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELong1972xxi-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Oldest_extant_manuscripts">Oldest extant manuscripts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diogenes_Laertius&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Oldest extant manuscripts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are many extant <a href="/wiki/Manuscript" title="Manuscript">manuscripts</a> of the <i>Lives</i>, although none of them are especially old, and they all descend from a common ancestor, because they all lack the end of Book VII.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xxv_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELong1972xxv-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The three most useful manuscripts are known as B, P, and F. Manuscript B (<i>Codex Borbonicus</i>) dates from the 12th century, and is in the <a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_Naples" class="mw-redirect" title="National Library of Naples">National Library of Naples</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Manuscript P (<i>Paris</i>) is dated to the 11th/12th century, and is in the <a href="/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_nationale_de_France" title="Bibliothèque nationale de France">Bibliothèque nationale de France</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorandi20132_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorandi20132-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Manuscript F (<i>Florence</i>) is dated to the 13th century, and is in the <a href="/wiki/Laurentian_Library" title="Laurentian Library">Laurentian Library</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorandi20133_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorandi20133-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The titles for the individual biographies used in modern editions are absent from these earliest manuscripts, however they can be found inserted into the blank spaces and margins of manuscript P by a later hand.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorandi201352_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorandi201352-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There seem to have been some early <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> translations, but they no longer survive. A 10th-century work entitled <i>Tractatus de dictis philosophorum</i> shows some knowledge of Diogenes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xxvi_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELong1972xxvi-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Henry_Aristippus" title="Henry Aristippus">Henry Aristippus</a>, in the 12th century, is known to have translated at least some of the work into Latin, and in the 14th century an unknown author made use of a Latin translation for his <i><a href="/wiki/De_vita_et_moribus_philosophorum" title="De vita et moribus philosophorum">De vita et moribus philosophorum</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xxvi_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELong1972xxvi-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (attributed erroneously to <a href="/wiki/Walter_Burley" title="Walter Burley">Walter Burley</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Printed_editions">Printed editions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diogenes_Laertius&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Printed editions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Laertii_Diogenis_De_Vitis_Dogmatis_et_Apophthegmatis_Eorum_Qui_in_Philosophia_Claruerunt.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Laertii_Diogenis_De_Vitis_Dogmatis_et_Apophthegmatis_Eorum_Qui_in_Philosophia_Claruerunt.jpg/220px-Laertii_Diogenis_De_Vitis_Dogmatis_et_Apophthegmatis_Eorum_Qui_in_Philosophia_Claruerunt.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="357" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Laertii_Diogenis_De_Vitis_Dogmatis_et_Apophthegmatis_Eorum_Qui_in_Philosophia_Claruerunt.jpg/330px-Laertii_Diogenis_De_Vitis_Dogmatis_et_Apophthegmatis_Eorum_Qui_in_Philosophia_Claruerunt.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Laertii_Diogenis_De_Vitis_Dogmatis_et_Apophthegmatis_Eorum_Qui_in_Philosophia_Claruerunt.jpg 2x" data-file-width="369" data-file-height="599" /></a><figcaption>Title page of an edition in Greek and Latin, 1594</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vitae_et_sententiae_philosophorum.tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Vitae_et_sententiae_philosophorum.tif/lossy-page1-220px-Vitae_et_sententiae_philosophorum.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="298" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Vitae_et_sententiae_philosophorum.tif/lossy-page1-330px-Vitae_et_sententiae_philosophorum.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Vitae_et_sententiae_philosophorum.tif/lossy-page1-440px-Vitae_et_sententiae_philosophorum.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2848" data-file-height="3858" /></a><figcaption>1611 Italian edition</figcaption></figure> <p>The first printed editions were Latin translations. The first, <i>Laertii Diogenis Vitae et sententiae eorum qui in philosophia probati fuerunt</i> (Romae: Giorgo Lauer, 1472), printed the translation of <a href="/wiki/Ambrogio_Traversari" class="mw-redirect" title="Ambrogio Traversari">Ambrogio Traversari</a> (whose manuscript presentation copy to <a href="/wiki/Cosimo_de%27_Medici" title="Cosimo de' Medici">Cosimo de' Medici</a> was dated February 8, 1433<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEde_la_Mare1992[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_March_2016]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(March_2016)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEde_la_Mare1992[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_March_2016]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(March_2016)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) and was edited by Elio Francesco Marchese.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETolomio1993154,_ff_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETolomio1993154,_ff-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> text of the lives of Aristotle and Theophrastus appeared in the third volume of the <a href="/wiki/Aldine_Press" title="Aldine Press">Aldine</a> Aristotle in 1497. The <a href="/wiki/Editio_princeps" title="Editio princeps">first edition</a> of the whole Greek text was that published by <a href="/wiki/Hieronymus_Froben" title="Hieronymus Froben">Hieronymus Froben</a> in 1533.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xxiv_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELong1972xxiv-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Greek/Latin edition of 1692 by <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Meibomius" title="Marcus Meibomius">Marcus Meibomius</a> divided each of the ten books into paragraphs of equal length, and progressively numbered them, providing the system still in use today.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorandi201311–12_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorandi201311–12-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first <a href="/wiki/Textual_criticism" title="Textual criticism">critical edition</a> of the entire text, by H.S. Long in the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Classical_Texts" title="Oxford Classical Texts">Oxford Classical Texts</a>, was not produced until 1964;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xxv_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELong1972xxv-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> this edition was superseded by <a href="/wiki/Miroslav_Marcovich" title="Miroslav Marcovich">Miroslav Marcovich</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Teubner" class="mw-redirect" title="Teubner">Teubner</a> edition, published between 1999 and 2002. A new edition, by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tiziano_Dorandi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tiziano Dorandi (page does not exist)">Tiziano Dorandi</a>, was published by <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University_Press" title="Cambridge University Press">Cambridge University Press</a> in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="English_translations">English translations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diogenes_Laertius&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: English translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Thomas Stanley's 1656 <i>History of Philosophy</i> adapts the format and content of Laertius's work into English, but Stanley compiled his book from a number of classical biographies of philosophers.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first complete English translation was a late 17th-century translation by ten different persons.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A better translation was made by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Duke_Yonge" title="Charles Duke Yonge">Charles Duke Yonge</a> (1853),<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYonge1853_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYonge1853-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but although this was more literal, it still contained many inaccuracies.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xiii_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELong1972xiii-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The next translation was by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Drew_Hicks" title="Robert Drew Hicks">Robert Drew Hicks</a> (1925) for the <a href="/wiki/Loeb_Classical_Library" title="Loeb Classical Library">Loeb Classical Library</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although it is slightly <a href="/wiki/Bowdlerize" class="mw-redirect" title="Bowdlerize">bowdlerized</a>. A new translation by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pamela_Mensch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pamela Mensch (page does not exist)">Pamela Mensch</a> was published by <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a> in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Stephen_White_(translator)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stephen White (translator) (page does not exist)">Stephen White</a> was published by <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University_Press" title="Cambridge University Press">Cambridge University Press</a> in 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy_and_assessment">Legacy and assessment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diogenes_Laertius&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Legacy and assessment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CdM,_presunto_autoritratto_di_leon_battista_alberti,_white_ground.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/CdM%2C_presunto_autoritratto_di_leon_battista_alberti%2C_white_ground.jpg/220px-CdM%2C_presunto_autoritratto_di_leon_battista_alberti%2C_white_ground.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="310" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/CdM%2C_presunto_autoritratto_di_leon_battista_alberti%2C_white_ground.jpg/330px-CdM%2C_presunto_autoritratto_di_leon_battista_alberti%2C_white_ground.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/CdM%2C_presunto_autoritratto_di_leon_battista_alberti%2C_white_ground.jpg/440px-CdM%2C_presunto_autoritratto_di_leon_battista_alberti%2C_white_ground.jpg 2x" data-file-width="780" data-file-height="1099" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Italian_Renaissance" title="Italian Renaissance">Italian Renaissance</a> scholar, painter, philosopher, and architect <a href="/wiki/Leon_Battista_Alberti" title="Leon Battista Alberti">Leon Battista Alberti</a> (1404–1472) modeled his own autobiography on Diogenes Laërtius's <i>Life of Thales</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECao2010271_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECao2010271-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Henricus_Aristippus" class="mw-redirect" title="Henricus Aristippus">Henricus Aristippus</a>, the archdeacon of <a href="/wiki/Catania" title="Catania">Catania</a>, produced a Latin translation of Diogenes Laërtius's book in southern Italy in the late 1150s, which has since been lost or destroyed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECao2010271_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECao2010271-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Geremia_da_Montagnone" title="Geremia da Montagnone">Geremia da Montagnone</a> used this translation as a source for his <i>Compedium moralium notabilium</i> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1310</span>) and an anonymous Italian author used it as a source for work entitled <i>Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum</i> (written <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1317–1320), which reached international popularity in the <a href="/wiki/Late_Middle_Ages" title="Late Middle Ages">Late Middle Ages</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECao2010271_44-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECao2010271-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The monk <a href="/wiki/Ambrose_Traversari" title="Ambrose Traversari">Ambrogio Traversari</a> (1386–1439) produced another Latin translation in <a href="/wiki/Florence" title="Florence">Florence</a> between 1424 and 1433, for which far better records have survived.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECao2010271_44-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECao2010271-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Italian_Renaissance" title="Italian Renaissance">Italian Renaissance</a> scholar, painter, philosopher, and architect <a href="/wiki/Leon_Battista_Alberti" title="Leon Battista Alberti">Leon Battista Alberti</a> (1404–1472) borrowed from Traversari's translation of the <i>Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers</i> in Book 2 of his <i>Libri della famiglia</i><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECao2010271_44-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECao2010271-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and modeled his own autobiography on Diogenes Laërtius's <i>Life of Thales</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECao2010271_44-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECao2010271-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Diogenes Laërtius's work has had a complicated reception in modern times.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECao2010271–272_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECao2010271–272-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The value of his <i>Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers</i> as an insight into the private lives of the Greek sages led the <a href="/wiki/French_Renaissance" title="French Renaissance">French Renaissance</a> philosopher <a href="/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne" title="Michel de Montaigne">Michel de Montaigne</a> (1533–1592) to exclaim that he wished that, instead of one Laërtius, there had been a dozen.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel" title="Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel">Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel</a> (1770–1831) criticized Diogenes Laërtius for his lack of philosophical talent and categorized his work as nothing more than a compilation of previous writers' opinions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECao2010271_44-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECao2010271-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nonetheless, he admitted that Diogenes Laërtius's compilation was an important one given the information that it contained.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECao2010271_44-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECao2010271-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Hermann_Usener" title="Hermann Usener">Hermann Usener</a> (1834–1905) deplored Diogenes Laërtius as a "complete ass" (<i>asinus germanus</i>) in his <i><a href="/wiki/Epicurea" class="mw-redirect" title="Epicurea">Epicurea</a></i> (1887).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECao2010271_44-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECao2010271-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Werner_Jaeger" title="Werner Jaeger">Werner Jaeger</a> (1888–1961) damned him as "that great ignoramus".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJaeger1947330_n.2_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJaeger1947330_n.2-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, however, scholars have managed to partially redeem Diogenes Laertius's reputation as a writer by reading his book in a Hellenistic literary context.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECao2010271–272_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECao2010271–272-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nonetheless, modern scholars treat Diogenes's testimonia with caution, especially when he fails to cite his sources. Herbert S. Long warns: "Diogenes has acquired an importance out of all proportion to his merits because the loss of many primary sources and of the earlier secondary compilations has accidentally left him the chief continuous source for the history of Greek philosophy."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xix_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELong1972xix-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Robert_M._Strozier" title="Robert M. Strozier">Robert M. Strozier</a> offers a somewhat more positive assessment of Diogenes Laertius's reliability, noting that many other ancient writers attempt to reinterpret and expand on the philosophical teachings they describe, something which Diogenes Laërtius rarely does.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStrozier198515_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStrozier198515-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Strozier concludes, "Diogenes Laertius is, when he does not conflate hundreds of years of distinctions, reliable simply because he is a less competent thinker than those on whom he writes, is less liable to re-formulate statements and arguments, and especially in the case of Epicurus, less liable to interfere with the texts he quotes. He does, however, simplify."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStrozier198515_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStrozier198515-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite his importance to the history of western philosophy and the controversy surrounding him, according to Gian Mario Cao, Diogenes Laërtius has still not received adequate <a href="/wiki/Philology" title="Philology">philological</a> attention.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECao2010271_44-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECao2010271-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both modern critical editions of his book, by H. S. Long (1964) and by M. Marcovich (1999) have received extensive criticism from scholars.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECao2010271_44-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECao2010271-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He is criticized primarily for being overly concerned with superficial details of the philosophers' lives and lacking the intellectual capacity to explore their actual philosophical works with any penetration. However, according to statements of the 14th-century monk <a href="/wiki/Walter_Burley" title="Walter Burley">Walter Burley</a> in his <i>De vita et moribus philosophorum</i>, the text of Diogenes seems to have been much fuller than that which we now possess. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reliability">Reliability</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diogenes_Laertius&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Reliability"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although Diogenes had a will to objectivity and fact-checking, Diogenes's works are today seen as generally unreliable from a historical perspective.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is neither consistent nor reliable in some of his reports and some of the details he cites contain obvious errors.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of them were probably introduced by <a href="/wiki/Copyist" title="Copyist">copyists</a> in the transmission of the text from antiquity, but some errors are undoubtedly due to Diogenes himself.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The reliability of Diogenes' sources have also been questioned, since he uses <a href="/wiki/Comic_poets" class="mw-redirect" title="Comic poets">comic poets</a> as sources.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Professor Brian Gregor suggests that readers will benefit from modern scholarly assistance while reading Diogenes' biographies, since they are "notoriously unreliable".<sup id="cite_ref-:1_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some scholars (e.g. Delfim Leão) state that Diogenes' unreliability is not entirely his responsibility and blame his sources instead.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_50-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Editions_and_translations">Editions and translations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diogenes_Laertius&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Editions and translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Diogenis Laertii Vitae philosophorum</i> edidit <a href="/wiki/Miroslav_Marcovich" title="Miroslav Marcovich">Miroslav Marcovich</a>, Stuttgart-Lipsia, Teubner, 1999–2002. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, vol. 1: Books I–X <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9783598713163" title="Special:BookSources/9783598713163">9783598713163</a>; vol. 2: Excerpta Byzantina; v. 3: Indices by Hans Gärtner.</li> <li><i>Lives of Eminent Philosophers</i>, edited by Tiziano Dorandi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013 (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, vol. 50, new radically improved critical edition).</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFetherstone_et_al1688" class="citation book cs1">Laërtius, Diogenes (1688). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A36037.0001.001?view=toc"><i>The lives, opinions, and remarkable sayings of the most famous ancient philosophers. The first volume written in Greek, by Diogenes Laertius; made English by several hands</i></a>. Vol. 1. Translated by Fetherstone, T.; White, Sam.; Smith, E.; Philips, J.; Kippax, R.; Baxter, William; M., R. (2 volumes ed.). London: Edward Brewster.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+lives%2C+opinions%2C+and+remarkable+sayings+of+the+most+famous+ancient+philosophers.+The+first+volume+written+in+Greek%2C+by+Diogenes+Laertius%3B+made+English+by+several+hands&rft.place=London&rft.edition=2+volumes&rft.pub=Edward+Brewster&rft.date=1688&rft.aulast=La%C3%ABrtius&rft.aufirst=Diogenes&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fquod.lib.umich.edu%2Fe%2Feebo%2FA36037.0001.001%3Fview%3Dtoc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADiogenes+Laertius" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYonge1853" class="citation book cs1">Laërtius, Diogenes (1853). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/livesandopinions00dioguoft"><i>Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers</i></a>. Translated by Yonge, Charles Duke. London: G.H. Bohn.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lives+and+Opinions+of+Eminent+Philosophers&rft.place=London&rft.pub=G.H.+Bohn&rft.date=1853&rft.aulast=La%C3%ABrtius&rft.aufirst=Diogenes&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Flivesandopinions00dioguoft&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADiogenes+Laertius" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Translation by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Drew_Hicks" title="Robert Drew Hicks">R.D. Hicks</a>: <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/18px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:Lives of the Eminent Philosophers"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers">"Index" </a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers" class="mw-redirect" title="Lives of the Eminent Philosophers">Lives of the Eminent Philosophers</a></i> (Two volume ed.). Loeb Classical Library. 1925.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Index&rft.btitle=Lives+of+the+Eminent+Philosophers&rft.edition=Two+volume&rft.pub=Loeb+Classical+Library&rft.date=1925&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADiogenes+Laertius" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Lives of Eminent Philosophers</i>. Vol. I. <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University_Press" title="Harvard University Press">Harvard University Press</a>, Loeb Classical Library. 1925. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-674-99203-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-674-99203-0"><bdi>978-0-674-99203-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lives+of+Eminent+Philosophers&rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press%2C+Loeb+Classical+Library&rft.date=1925&rft.isbn=978-0-674-99203-0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADiogenes+Laertius" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Lives of Eminent Philosophers</i>. Vol. II. Harvard University Press, Loeb Classical Library. 1925. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-674-99204-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-674-99204-7"><bdi>978-0-674-99204-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lives+of+Eminent+Philosophers&rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press%2C+Loeb+Classical+Library&rft.date=1925&rft.isbn=978-0-674-99204-7&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADiogenes+Laertius" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul></li> <li>Translations based on the critical edition by Tiziano Dorandi: <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Lives of Eminent Philosophers</i>. Translated by Pamela Mensch. Oxford University Press. 2018. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-086217-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-086217-6"><bdi>978-0-19-086217-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lives+of+Eminent+Philosophers&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2018&rft.isbn=978-0-19-086217-6&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADiogenes+Laertius" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Lives of Eminent Philosophers</i>. Translated by Stephen White. Cambridge University Press. 2020. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-88335-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-521-88335-1"><bdi>978-0-521-88335-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lives+of+Eminent+Philosophers&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2020&rft.isbn=978-0-521-88335-1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADiogenes+Laertius" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diogenes_Laertius&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mochus" title="Mochus">Mochus</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diogenes_Laertius&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The statement by Robert Hicks (1925) that "the scribe obviously knew no Greek",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHicks1925[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_March_2016]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(March_2016)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHicks1925[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_March_2016]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(March_2016)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was later rejected by Herbert Long. The more recent opinion of Tiziano Dorandi, however, is that the scribe had "little knowledge of Greek ... and limited himself to reproducing it in a mechanical way exactly as he managed to decipher it". A few years later an "anonymous corrector" with good knowledge of Greek rectified "many errors or readings that, rightly or wrongly, he considered erroneous" (<a href="#CITEREFDorandi2013">Dorandi 2013</a>, p. 21).</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diogenes_Laertius&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diogenes_Laertius&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Diogenes Laërtius", <i><a href="/wiki/The_Columbia_Electronic_Encyclopedia" class="mw-redirect" title="The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia">The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia</a></i>, 2013</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925a§_47-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925a§_47_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLaërtius1925a">Laërtius 1925a</a>, § 47.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-eb1911-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-eb1911_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-eb1911_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChisholm1911">Chisholm1911</a>, p. 282.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sopater, ap. <a href="/wiki/Photius" class="mw-redirect" title="Photius">Photius</a>, <i>Biblioth.</i> 161</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Suda, <i>Tetralogia</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Stephanus_of_Byzantium" title="Stephanus of Byzantium">Stephanus of Byzantium</a>, <i>Druidai</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lemma to <i>Anthologia Palatina</i>, vii. 95</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Eustathius_of_Thessalonica" title="Eustathius of Thessalonica">Eustathius</a>, <i>on Iliad</i>, M. 153</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stephanus of Byzantium, <i>Enetoi</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stephanus of Byzantium, <i>Cholleidai</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith18701028-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith18701028_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSmith1870">Smith 1870</a>, p. 1028.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELong1972xvi-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xvi_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLong1972">Long 1972</a>, p. xvi.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-diogix109-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-diogix109_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-diogix109_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLaërtius1925b">Laërtius 1925b</a>, § 109. Specifically, Diogenes refers to "our Apollonides of Nicaea". This has been conjectured to mean either "my fellow-citizen" or "a Sceptic like myself".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECraig199886-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECraig199886_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCraig1998">Craig 1998</a>, p. 86.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925c§_3–12-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925c§_3–12_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLaërtius1925c">Laërtius 1925c</a>, § 3–12.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925c§_34–135-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925c§_34–135_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLaërtius1925c">Laërtius 1925c</a>, § 34–135.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELong1972xvii–xviii-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xvii–xviii_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLong1972">Long 1972</a>, pp. xvii–xviii.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Montaigne, <i>Essays</i> II.10 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/montaigne/2x.htm">"Of Books"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090214161140/http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/montaigne/2x.htm">Archived</a> 2009-02-14 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELong1972xix-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xix_19-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xix_19-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLong1972">Long 1972</a>, p. xix.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925b§_93–104-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925b§_93–104_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLaërtius1925b">Laërtius 1925b</a>, § 93–104.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925c§_36-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925c§_36_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLaërtius1925c">Laërtius 1925c</a>, § 36.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925d§_22–26-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELaërtius1925d§_22–26_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLaërtius1925d">Laërtius 1925d</a>, § 22–26.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/gesammeltewerke01nietuoft"><i>Gesammelte Werke</i></a>, 1920, p. 363.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELong1972xxi-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xxi_24-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLong1972">Long 1972</a>, p. xxi.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELong1972xxv-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xxv_25-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xxv_25-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLong1972">Long 1972</a>, p. xxv.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHicks1925[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_March_2016]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(March_2016)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHicks1925[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_March_2016]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(March_2016)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHicks1925">Hicks 1925</a>, p. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (March 2016)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorandi20132-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorandi20132_28-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDorandi2013">Dorandi 2013</a>, p. 2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorandi20133-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorandi20133_29-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDorandi2013">Dorandi 2013</a>, p. 3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorandi201352-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorandi201352_30-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDorandi2013">Dorandi 2013</a>, p. 52.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELong1972xxvi-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xxvi_31-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xxvi_31-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLong1972">Long 1972</a>, p. xxvi.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEde_la_Mare1992[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_March_2016]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(March_2016)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEde_la_Mare1992[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_March_2016]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(March_2016)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>_32-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFde_la_Mare1992">de la Mare 1992</a>, p. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (March 2016)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETolomio1993154,_ff-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETolomio1993154,_ff_33-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolomio1993">Tolomio 1993</a>, pp. 154, ff.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELong1972xxiv-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELong1972xxiv_34-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLong1972">Long 1972</a>, p. xxiv.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorandi201311–12-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorandi201311–12_35-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDorandi2013">Dorandi 2013</a>, pp. 11–12.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cambridge.org/fr/academic/subjects/classical-studies/ancient-philosophy/diogenes-laertius-lives-eminent-philosophers">"Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers"</a>. 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In <i>Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung.</i> Vol. 2: 36.5–6. Edited by Wolfgang Haase, 4241–4301. Berlin: W. de Gruyter.</li> <li>Barnes, Jonathan. 1986. "Nietzsche and Diogenes Laertius." <i>Nietzsche-Studien</i> 15:16–40.</li> <li>Dorandi, Tiziano. 2009. <i>Laertiana: Capitoli sulla tradizione manoscritta e sulla storia del testo delle Vite dei filosofi di Diogene Laerzio.</i> Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter.</li> <li>Eshleman, Kendra Joy. 2007. "Affection and Affiliation: Social Networks and Conversion to Philosophy." <i>The Classical Journal</i> 103.2: 129–140.</li> <li>Grau, Sergi. 2010. "How to Kill a Philosopher: The Narrating of Ancient Greek Philosophers' Deaths in Relation to the Living. <i>Ancient Philosophy</i> 30.2: 347-381</li> <li>Hägg, Tomas. 2012. <i>The Art of Biography in Antiquity.</i> Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press.</li> <li>Kindstrand, Jan Frederik. 1986. "Diogenes Laertius and the Chreia Tradition." <i>Elenchos</i> 7:217–234.</li> <li>Long, Anthony A. 2006. "Diogenes Laertius, Life of Arcesilaus." In <i>From Epicurus to Epictetus: Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy.</i> Edited by Anthony A. Long, 96–114. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaap_Mansfeld" title="Jaap Mansfeld">Mansfeld, Jaap</a>. 1986. "Diogenes Laertius on Stoic Philosophy." <i>Elenchos</i> 7: 295–382.</li> <li>Mejer, Jørgen. 1978. <i>Diogenes Laertius and his Hellenistic Background.</i> Wiesbaden: Steiner.</li> <li>Mejer, Jørgen. 1992. "Diogenes Laertius and the Transmission of Greek Philosophy." In <i>Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung.</i> Vol. 2: 36.5–6. Edited by Wolfgang Haase, 3556–3602. Berlin: W. de Gruyter.</li> <li>Morgan, Teresa J. 2013. "Encyclopaedias of Virtue?: Collections of Sayings and Stories About Wise Men in Greek." 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