![]() ![]() Epic and lyric poetry tragedy and comedy history, travel, philosophy, and oratory the great medical writers and mathematicians those Church fathers who made particular use of pagan culture-in short, our entire classical heritage is represented here in convenient and well-printed pocket volumes in which an up-to-date text and accurate and literate English translation face each other page by page. The Loeb Classical Library® is the only existing series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Diogenes Laertius is in two volumes. It is a very valuable collection of quotations and facts. His history, in ten books, is divided unscientifically into two “Successions” or sections: “Ionian” (from Anaximander to Theophrastus and Chrysippus, including the Socratic schools) and “Italian” (from Pythagoras to Epicurus, including the Eleatics and sceptics). Diogenes Laertius carefully compiled his information from hundreds of sources and enriches his accounts with numerous quotations.ĭiogenes Laertius lived probably in the earlier half of the third century CE, his ancestry and birthplace being unknown. ![]() Further, it is alleged that he said to one of his slaves, “I would have given you a flogging, had I not been in a passion.This rich compendium on the lives and doctrines of philosophers ranges over three centuries, from Thales to Epicurus (to whom the whole tenth book is devoted) 45 important figures are portrayed. One day, when Xenocrates had come in, Plato asked him to chastise his slave, since he was unable to do it himself because he was in a passion. And, upon his protesting that he played for a trifle only, “But the habit,” rejoined Plato, “is not a trifle.” Being asked whether there would be any memoirs of him as of his predecessors, he replied, “A man must first make a name, and he will have no lack of memoirs.” Dicaearchus, however, censures its whole style as vulgar.Ī story is told that Plato once saw some one playing at dice and rebuked him. For the subject has about it something of the freshness of youth. There is a story that the Phaedrus was his first dialogue. Euphorion and Panaetius relate that the beginning of the Republic was found several times revised and rewritten, and the Republic itself Aristoxenus declares to have been nearly all of it included in the Controversies of Protagoras. Some say that Philippus of Opus copied out the Laws, which were left upon waxen tablets, and it is said that he was the author of the Epinomis. And according to Favorinus, when Plato read the dialogue On the Soul, Aristotle alone stayed to the end the rest of the audience got up and went away. b Aristotle remarks that the style of the dialogues is half-way between poetry and prose. Nowhere in his writings does Plato mention himself by name, except in the dialogue On the Soul a and the Apology. ![]()
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