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Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers

By Tiziano Dorandi

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
0521886813, 9780521886819
Google Books ID
lB51MAEACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4463057 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 50
Pages
952\961
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00

Description

This edition presents a radically improved text of Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers. The text is accompanied by a three level apparatus. A lengthy introduction list all the manuscripts of Diogenes' Lives and discusses its transmission in Late Antiquity and Medieval and Renaissance Periods. There is also a index of personal names, a bibliography and some notes which cover several features of the text and its interpretation. Tiziano Dorandi has used the Nachlaß of Peter Von der Mühll, for the first time in its entirety, to verify and consolidate material that he had previously gathered. This is by far the most detailed and elaborate edition which Diogenes' Lives - a work unique in his kind, and which has had a profound influence on European literature and philosophy - has ever received.

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