Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Compact Edition - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Diogenes Laertius, Pamela Mensch, James Miller (Editor)Publish date:2020-10-01Pages:480
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197523391ISBN-10:197523390UPC:9780197523391Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Philosophers, Ancient, History & SurveysBook Topic:Greece, Ancient & ClassicalSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.5521Product ID:SCSKTEM2JQ
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Compact Edition
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197523391ISBN-10:197523390UPC:9780197523391Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Philosophers, Ancient, History & SurveysBook Topic:Greece, Ancient & ClassicalSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.5521Product ID:SCSKTEM2JQ
Diogenes Laertius was a Greek writer who probably lived in the first half of the third century AD. Nothing is known about his life, apart from his authorship of the Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. He also wrote poems, most of them now lost. Pamela Mensch is a translator of ancient Greek whose works include The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander, Herodotus' Histories, and Plutarch's...
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