The Lives and Opinions of Eminent PhilosophersDiogenes Laertius
Philosophy
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Diogenes Laertius
Philosophers, Ancient -- Biography; Philosophy, Ancient
Enthymemes on Magnitude; one of Divisions of Enthymemes; on Style,
two; on Advice, one; on Collection, two; on Nature, three; on Natural
Philosophy, one; on the Philosophy of Archytas, three; on the Philosophy
of Speusippus and Xenocrates, one; on things taken from the doctrines of
Timæus and the school of Archytas, one; on Doctrines of Melissus, one;
on Doctrines of Alcmæon, one; on the Pythagoreans, one; on the Precepts
of Gorgias, one; on the Precepts of Xenophanes, one; on the Precepts of
Zeno, one; on the Pythagoreans, one; on Animals, nine; on Anatomy, eight;
one book, a Selection of Anatomical Questions; one on Compound Animals;
one on Mythological Animals; one on Impotence; one on Plants; one on
Physiognomy; two on Medicine; one on the Unit; one on Signs of Storms;
one on Astronomy; one on Optics; one on Motion; one on Music; one on
Memory; six on Doubts connected with Homer; one on Poetry; thirty-eight
of Natural Philosophy in reference to the First Elements; two of Problems
Resolved; two of Encyclica, or General Knowledge; one on Mechanics; two
consisting of Problems derived from the writings of Democritus; one on
Stone; one book of Comparisons; twelve books of Miscellanies; fourteen
books of things explained according to their Genus; one on Rights; one
book, the Conquerors at the Olympic Games; one, the Conquerors at the
Pythian Games in the Art of Music; one, the Pythian; one, a List of the
Victors in the Pythian Games; one, the Victories gained at the Olympic
Games; one on Tragedies; one, a List of Plays; one book of Proverbs; one
on the Laws of Recommendations; four books of Laws; one of Categories;
one on Interpretation; a book containing an account of the Constitutions
of a hundred and fifty-eight cities, and also some individual democratic,
oligarchic, aristocratic, and tyrannical Constitutions; Letters to
Philip; Letters of the Selymbrians; four Letters to Alexander; nine
to Antipater; one to Mentor; one to Ariston; one to Olympias; one to
Hephæstion; one to Themistagoras; one to Philoxenus; one to Democritus;
one book of Poems beginning:—
Hail! holy, sacred, distant-shooting God.
A book of Elegies which begins:—
Daughter of all-accomplish’d mother.
The whole consisting of four hundred and forty-five thousand two hundred
and seventy lines.
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