Vitae philosophorum

Diogenes Laertius

Diogenes Laertius. Hicks, R. D., editor. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925.

  • Hegesianax.
  • Of Human Life, four books.
  • Of Just Dealing.
  • Neocles: dedicated to Themista.
  • Symposium.
  • Eurylochus: dedicated to Metrodorus.
  • Of Vision.
  • Of the Angle in the Atom.
  • Of Touch.
  • Of Fate.
  • Theories of the Feelings—against Timocrates.
  • Discovery of the Future.
  • Introduction to Philosophy.
  • Of Images.
  • Of Presentation.
  • Aristobulus.
  • Of Music.
  • Of Justice and the other Virtues.
  • Of Benefits and Gratitude.
  • Polymedes.
  • Timocrates, three books.
  • Metrodorus, five books.
  • Antidorus, two books.
  • Theories about Diseases (and Death)—to Mithras.[*](The full title, Περὶ νόσων καὶ θανάτου, Of Diseases and Death, is preserved in a Herculaneum papyrus, 1012, col. 38, thus correcting our mss. of D. L.)
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  • Callistolas.
  • Of Kingship.
  • Anaximenes.
  • Correspondence.

    The views expressed in these works I will try to set forth by quoting three of his epistles, in which he has given an epitome of his whole system.