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Title: Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Condition: New
Subtitle: Compact Edition
Translator: Pamela Mensch
Contributor: James Miller (Edited by), Pamela Mensch (Translated by)
Author: Diogenes Laertius
ISBN-10: 0197523390
EAN: 9780197523391
ISBN: 9780197523391
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Paperback
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Edition: Reprint
Release Date: 05/11/2020
Description: Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide variety of ideas and examples to follow. 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 the Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, first compiled in the third century AD, came to prominence in Renaissance Italy. To this day, it remains a crucial source for much of what we know about the origins and practice of philosophy in ancient Greece, covering a longer period of time and a larger number of figures-from Pythagoras and Socrates to Aristotle and Epicurus-than any other ancient source.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 156mm
Item Width: 25mm
Item Weight: 704g
Topic: Ancient History, History
Type: Ancient Greek & Roman
Release Year: 2020

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