![]() As a matter of fact, one of Diogenes’ interests lies – as the title of his work indicates – in the person of any given philosopher. He wrote, for example, that Timon had a wife and son, but we are told nothing about them. He tells us of nameless women, wives, daughters and courtesans. It may also be that Diogenes Laertius was simply not interested in contemporary developments and more specifically that the Pythagoras of Neopythagoreanism, who is hardly more than a Platonizing-Aristotelianizing doctrinaire, was not especially attractive to him. Study of Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of the Eminent Philosophers 1 gives us tantalizing snippets of information about women of whom we might never have heard. This rich tradition was recast by Diogenes Laertius into an anthology, a miscellany of maxims and anecdotes, that generations of Western readers have consulted for edification as well as entertainment ever since Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, first compiled in the AD third century, came to prominence in Renaissance Italy. Tidak ada yang diketahui soal hidupnya, tetapi karya buatannya Kehidupan dan Pendapat Filsuf-filsuf Tersohor menjadi sumber utama untuk sejarah filsafat Yunani kuno. Geographical marginality is probably not a good explanation, because Diogenes’ erudite work suggests – even if his actual sources are certainly fewer that those which are quoted – that he had access to a major library, perhaps that of Alexandria. Diogenes Laertios ( Yunani:, Diogens Laertios tersohor pada Abad ke-3 M) 1 adalah seorang biografer dari para filsuf Yunani. Thus, the fact that his own presentation of Pythagoras does not appear to be indebted to Neopythagoreanism is certainly significant, even if what this is significant of is more difficult to assess. Neopythagoreanism, which goes back to the first century BC, must have still been vigorous during Diogenes’ lifetime. This approximate date helps us appreciate the chapter he devotes to Pythagoras at the beginning of Book 8 of his Lives (as I shall abbreviate the work known as Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers), for it allows us to relate Diogenes’ treatment of Pythagoras to two philosophical movements deeply indebted to Pythagoreanism, i.e. 190 AD) and his disciple Saturninus, and the most recent source he refers to is Favorinus of Arelate. negative internal evidence that he lived and worked at the beginning of the third century AD: the last philosophers he mentions are Sextus Empiricus (active c. These brief biographies of more than eighty philosophers of ancient Greece were assembled by Diogenes Lartius in. One recent hypothesis is that his surname refers to his birthplace (the city of Laerte in Caria or Cilicia), but other interpreters prefer to think – on the basis of a controversial indication in his text – that he was born (and lived) in Nicaea in Bithynia it is also generally admitted on the basis of the scanty and mostly. ![]() Afterwards he joined Anaxarchus, whom he accompanied on his travels everywhere so that he even forgathered with the Indian Gymnosophists and with the Magi. Heraclitus - Xenophanes - Parmenides - Melissus - Zeno, the Eleatic - Leucippus - Democritus - Protagoras - Diogenes, of Apollonia - Anaxarchus - Pyrrho - Timon - BOOK X.Introduction We know very little about Diogenes Laertius as a person. According to Apollodorus in his Chronology, he was first a painter then he studied under Stilpo's son Bryson 1: thus Alexander in his Successions of Philosophers. The lives and opinions of eminent philosophers / by Diogenes Laertius literally translated by C.D. Diogenes Laertius 'Peri bin, dogmatn kai apophthegmatn tn en philosophii endokimsantn' by Ambrogio Traversari circa 1430 A.D. 13/09/22, 20:10 Diogenes Laërtius: An Annotated bibliography. Pythagoras - Empedocles - Epicharmus - Archytas - Alcmæon - Hippasus - Philolaus - Eudoxus - BOOK IX. Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius. Zeno - Ariston - Herillus - Dionysius - Cleanthes - Sphærus - Chrysippus - BOOK VIII. ![]() Antisthenes - Diogenes - Monimus - Onesicritus - Crates - Metrocles - Hipparchia - Menippus - Menedemus - BOOK VII. Aristotle - Theophrastus - Strato - Lycon - Demetrius - Heraclides - BOOK VI. Speusippus - Xenocrates - Polemo - Crates - Crantor - Arcesilaus - Bion - Lacydes - Carneades - Clitomachus - BOOK V. Anaximander - Anaximenes - Archelaus - Socrates - Xenophon - Æschines - Aristippus - Phædo - Euclides - Stilpo - Crito - Simon - Glauco - Simias - Cebes - Menedemus - BOOK III. However, his writings also reveal, sometimes unintentionally, women’s roles and attitudes to women in ancient times. Preface - Thales - Solon - Chilo - Pittacus - Bias - Cleobulus - Periander - Anacharsis, the Scythian - Myson - Epimenides - Pherecydes - BOOK II. Women in Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, part 3 Novem History Diogenes Laertius’s main intention was to write biographies of male philosophers 1.
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