COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EDITIONS OF THE GREEK TEXT OF
THE VITAE PHILOSOPHORUM
Diogenis Laertij De vitis, decretis & responsis celebrium philosophorum
Libri decem, nunc primum excusi. Basileae: 1533.
First complete edition (Editio princeps) of the Greek text, edited
and translated by Hyeronimus Frobenius and Nicolaus Episcopus.
Three Vitae have been already printed: Aristotelis et Theophrasti Vitae in vol. II of the Aldine edition of
Aristotle (Venetiis 1497);
Xenophontis Vita in the Aldine edition of the works of Xenophon (Venetiis
1525) reprinted in the Giuntina edition (Florentiae 1527).
Laertii Diogenis de vita et moribus philosophorum, libri X.
Antverpiae: Christophori Plantini 1566.
Edited Ioannis Sambuci (Iános Zsámboky, 1531-1584)
Diogenis Laertii de vitis, dogmatis & apophthegmatis eorum qui in
philosophia claruerunt, libri X. Geneva: 1570.
Edited with annotations and Latin translation by Henricus Stephanus.
Diogenis Laertii de vitis, dogmatis & apophthegmatis clarorum
philosophorum libri X. Geneva: 1593.
Reprint of the edition by Henri Estienne (Henricus Stephanus, 1570) with
annotations by Isaac Casaubon.
Laertii Diogenis de uitis, dogmatis et apophthegmatis eorum qui in
philosophia claruerunt, libri X. Romae: Aloysium Zanettum 1594.
Edited with annotations by Tommaso Alodobrandini
Diogenes Laertius, De Vitis, dogmatis et apophthegmatis clarorum
Philosophorum, Libri X. Geneva: Iacobum Stoer 1615.
Edited by Paul Estienne (son of Henri Estienne), with the notes by Isaac
Casaubon
Laertii Diogenis De Vitis Dogmatis et Apophthegmatis Eorum qui in
philosophia Claruerunt; Libri X. Londinii: Octavanum Pulleyn 1664.
Reprint by John Pearson (1613-1686) of the Aldobrandinian edition of 1594 with
Annotationes by Henri Estienne, Isaac and Méric Casaubon and
Observationibus by Gilles Ménage (Aegidii Menagii, 1613-1692) that contains
the first printed edition of an anonymous life of Aristotle (the so-called
Vita Menagiana).
Diogenis Laertii De Vitis, Dogmatibus et Apophthegmatibus Clarorum
Philosophorum Libri X. Amstelaeami: Henricus Wetstenium 1692.
Greek and Latin text by Marc Meibom, with annotations to I. and M. Casaubon, T.
Aldobrandini in two volumes.
The second volume contains: Aegidii Menagii in Diogenem Observationes
auctiores [with the unedited Vita of Aristotle called Vita
Menagiana], ut et Joachimi Kühnii ad Diogenem Notas.
Diogenis Laertii De vitis, dogmatibus et apophthegmatibus clarorum
philosophorum Libri X. Curiae Regnitianae: Gotthard Ioannem Puttnerum 1739.
Greek and Latin edition By Paulo Daniele Longolio
Diogenis Laertii De vitis, dogmatis et apophthegmatis clarorum
philosophorum libri X. Lipsiae: Carolus Franciscus Koehlerus 1828.
Greeek and Latin edition in two volumes: I. (1828) edited by Heinrich Gustav
Hübner; II. (1831) edited by Gottfried Hermann
Diogenis Laertii De Vitis Philosophorum libri X cum indice rerum.
Lipsiae: Charles Tauchnitz 1833.
Diogenis Laertii de clarorum philosophorum vitis, dogmatibus et
apophthegmatibus libri decem. Pariisis: Firmin-Didot 1850.
Edited by Carel Gabriel Cobet.
Reprinted 1862 and 1929
Commentarii in Diogenem Laertium. Volumen Primum. Lipsiae und
Londini: C. F. Kochler und Black, Young & Young 1830.
Edited by Heinrich Gustav Huebner, contains: Menagius, Aegidius, Notae atque
Aegrdii Menagii observationes et emendationes in Diogenem Laertium. Addita est
historia mulierum philosopharurn ab eodem Menagio scripta. Editionem ad exemplar
wetstenianum expressam atque indicibus instructam curavit Henricus Gustavus
Huebnerus lipsiensis.
Commentarii in Diogenem Laertium. Volumen Secundum. Lipsiae: C. F.
Kochler 1833.
Edited by Carl Iacobitz after the deat of Huebner; contains the reprint of the
notes by Gilles Ménage with the Vita Menagiana (1692): Menagius,
Aegidius, Notae atque Aegidii Menagii observationes et emendationes in
Diogenem Laertium. Addita est historia mulierum philosopharum ab eodem Menagio
scripta. Editionem ad exemplar wetstenianum exspressam atque indicibus
instructam post Huebneri mortem absolvit Carolus lacobitz. Volumen Secundum.
Diogenes Laërtius. Lives of eminent philosophers. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press 1925.
Greek text facing an English translation by Robert Drew Hicks.
Reprint with an introduction by Herbert Strainge Long, 1972.
Diogenes Laertii. Vitae Philosophorum. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1964.
Critical edition of the Greek text by Herbert Strainge Long
Diogenes Laertius. Vitae philosophorum. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner
1999.
Critical edition by Miroslav Marcovich.
Vol. I: Libri I - X; Vol. II: Excerpta Byzantina et indices; Vol
III: Indices Hans Gärtner (2002).
Diogenes Laërtius. Vitae philosophorum. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press 2010.
New critical edition in two volumes by Tiziano Dorandi (not yet published).
The first volume is in press and the second near to completion (Tiziano Dorandi,
"Premessa" (February 2009) to Laertiana, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2009
p. XI.
Mühll Peter von der. Epicuri Epistulae Tres et Ratae Sententiae.
Leipzig: Teubner 1922.
Laks André. Édition critique et commentée de la Vie d'Epicure dans
Diogene Laerce (X, 1- 34). In Études sur l'épicurisme antique. Edited by
Bollack Jean and Laks André. Lille: Publications de l'Université de Lille 1976.
pp. 1-118
Laks André. Diogène d'Apollonie. La dernière cosmologie présocratique.
Lille: Presses Universitaires de Lille 1983.
Édition, traduction et commentaire des fragments et des témoignages.
Présentation de Jean Bollack.
Appéndice 4. Diogène Laërce, Vies des philosophes, IX, 57. Avec une note
sur l'ordre des chapitres dans le livre IX des Vies.
SELECTED TRANSLATIONS IN LATIN, ENGLISH, ITALIAN, FRENCH, AND GERMAN
Laertii Diogenis Vitae et sententiae eorum qui in philosophia probati
fuerunt. Romae: Giorgo Lauer 1472.
Latin version by Ambrogio Traversari (1386-1439) between 1424 and 1433 (the
first printed text of the Lives) edited by Elius Fanciscus Marchisius.
Many reprints: Venice, 1475, 1490, 1493 and 1497; Brescia 1485, Bologna 1495 (Miroslav
Flodr - Incunabula classicorum. Wiegendrucke der griechischen und römischen
Literatur - Amsterdam, Hakkert, 1973, pp. 137-138).
Diogenes Laertius Vitae et Sententiae eorum qui in Philosophia probati
fuerunt. Venetia: Nicolaum Jenson 1475.
Translated by Ambrosio Camaldulensi [Ambrogio Traversari] from the recension by
Bendetto Brognoli
Laertii Diogenis de vita et moribus philosophorum, libri decem.
Antwerpiae: Tirnaviensis Pannonii 1566.
Translated by Joannes Sambucus [János Zsámboky] (1531-1584).
Diogenes Laërtius. Lives of eminent philosophers. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press 1925.
Translated by R. D. Hicks with the Greek text facing.
Reprint with an introduction by Herbert Strainge Long, 1972.
Sollenberger Michael George, "Diogenes Laertius' Life of Theophrastus.
A critical edition of the text with a translation and commentary", Rutger
University, 1984.
Unpublished Ph.D thesis
Diogene Laerzio. Vite dei filosofi. Bari : Laterza 1962.
Traduzione italiana di Marcello Gigante; terza edizione riveduta 1987.
Diogene Laerzio. Vite e dottrine dei più celebri filosofi. Milano:
Bompiani 2005.
Traduzione italiana con testo greco a fronte (edizione Marcovich) a cura di
Giovanni Reale, con la collaborazione di Giuseppe Girgenti e Ilaria Ramelli
Epicurea, nell'edizione di Hermann Usener. Milano : Bompiani 2002.
Traduzione dell'edizione del 1887 di Ilaria Ramelli con testo greco a fronte.
Contiene la Vita di Epicuro di Diogene Laerzio.
Diogène Laërce. Vies et doctrines des philosophes illustres. Paris:
LGF - Livre de Poche 1999.
Traduction française sous la direction de Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé. Introduction
et notes de J.-F. Balaudé, L. Brisson, J. Brunschwig, R. Goulet, T. Dorandi,
M.-O. Goulet-Cazé, M. Narcy, avec la collaboration de Michel Patillon
Delatte Armand. La vie de Pythagore de Diogène Laërce. Bruxelles:
Lamertin 1922.
Èdition critique avec introduction (pp. 5-100) et commentaire par Armand Delatte.
Reprint New York, Arno Press, 1979 and Hildesheim, Georg Olms, 1988.
Diogène Laërce. Vie de Platon. Paris: Belles Lettres 1996.
Traduction, introduction et notes d' Alain Philippe Segonds
Diogène Laërce. Vies et doctrines des Stoïciens. Paris: LGF 2006.
Traduction, introduction, notes de commentaire, bibliographie, index de Richard
Goulet
Diogenes Laertius. Leben und Meinungen berühmter Philosophen.
Leipzig: Meiner 1921.
Übersetzung von Otto Apelt (neu herausgegeben sowie mit Vorwort Einleitung und
neuen Anmerkungen zu Text & Übersetzung versehen von K. Reich (1967); 3. Auflage
Hamburg, Meiner, 1998)
Diogenes Laertius. Leben und Lehre der Philosophen. Stuttgart: Reclam
1998.
Übersetzung von Fritz Jürß
Diógenes Laercio. Vidas, opiniones y sentenciás de los filósofos mas
illustres. Madrid: Luis Navarro 1982.
Traducidas por José Ortiz y Sanz (2 tomos)
Diógenes Laercio. Vidas de los Filósofos Ilustres. Madrid: Alianza
Editorial 2007.
Traducción de Carlos García Gual
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CRITICAL STUDIES
Diogene Laerzio storico del pensiero antico.
Elenchos.Rivista di Studi sul Pensiero Antico 7 1986.
Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Napoli ed Amalfi, 30 settembre - 3 ottobre
1985.
Sommario: Avvertenza 5; Marcello Gigante: Biografia e dossografia in Diogene
Laerzio 7; Gerard Verbeke: Panétius et Posidonius chez Diogène Laërce 103;
Olof Gigon: Das dritte Buch des Diogenes Laertios 133; Gabriele Giannantoni:
Socrate e i Socratici in Diogene Laerzio 183; Jan Frederik Kindstrand:
Diogenes Laertius and the Chreia tradition 217; Paul Moraux:
Diogène Laërce et le Péripatos 245; Jaap Mansfeld: Diogenes
Laertius on Stoic philosophy 295; Jonathan Barnes: Diogene Laerzio e il
Pirronismo 383; Anthony A. Long: Diogenes Laertius, Life of Arcesilaus
429-449; Indici 451.
Algra Keimpe A., "Gassendi e le texte de Diogène Laërce,"
Elenchos.Rivista di Studi sul Pensiero Antico 15: 79-103 (1994).
"L'étude des objectifs et de la méthode de Gassendi, ainsi que du matériel
dont il disposait pour la rédaction de ses Animadversiones in decimum
librum Diogenis Laërtii (Lyon 1649), permet d'affirmer que le jugement
très négatif que la plupart des savants du XIX et XX siècle ont porté sur
cet ouvrage n'est pas justifié. Même si les compétences philologiques de
Gassendi n'égalaient pas ses qualités de philosophe, il a donné une
impulsion non négligeable à l'établissement du texte de Diogène grâce à sa
connaissance de l'épicurisme et à sa maîtrise du grec."
Ambaglio Delfino, "Diogene Laerzio e la storiografia
greca frammentaria," Athenaeum 61: 269-272 (1983).
Aronadio Francesco, "Due fonti laerziane: Sozione e
Demetrio di Magnesia," Elenchos.Rivista di Studi sul Pensiero Antico
11: 203-255 (1990).
Barnes Jonathan. Diogenes Laertius IX 61-116: the
philosophy of Pirronism. In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt,
vol. 36: Philosophie, Wissenschaften, Technik. 6: Teilband: Philosophie
(Doxographica [Forts.]). Edited by Haase Wolfgang. Berlin: de Gruyter
1992. pp. 4241-4301
Barnes Jonathan. The catalogue of Chrysippus' logical
works. In Polyhistor. Studies in the history and historiography of
ancient philosophy presented to Jaap Mansfeld on his sixtieth birthday.
Edited by Algra Keimpe, Van der Horst Pieter, and Runia David. Leiden: Brill
1996. pp. 169-184
The catalogue of the works of Chrysippus preserved by Diogenes Laertius (7,
189 ff.) may derive from a handbook by Chrysippus himself ; this makes it a
fairly reliable guide to his thought
Bidez Joseph. La biographie d'Empédocle. Gand:
Université de Gand 1894.
Contents:La vie d'Empédocle par Diogène Laërce; Histoire de la tradition;
Biographie d'Empédocle.
Reprint: Hildesheim, Georg Olms, 1973; Charleston, BiblioLife 2009.
Bodéüs Richard, "L'aristotélisme stoïcien," Cahiers
des Études Anciennes 29: 7-32 (1995).
"The text of Diogenes Laertius' testimony to Aristotle's philosophy is in
fact a Stoic construction the principle elements of which, established in
the Hellenistic era, have influenced for centuries our understanding of
Aristotle's thought."
Bollansée Jan, "Animadversiones in Diogenem Laertium,"
Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 144: 64-106 (2001).
Brancacci Aldo. I koiné aréskonta dei Cinici e
la koinonia tra cinismo e stoicismo nel libro VI (103-105) delle
'Vite' di Diogene Laerzio. In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen
Welt, vol. 36: Philosophie, Wissenschaften, Technik. 6. Teilband:
Philosophie (Doxographica [Forts.]). Edited by Haase Wolfgang. Berlin:
de Gruyter 1992. pp. 4049-4075
Brisson Luc. Diogène Laërce, 'Vies et doctrines des
philosophes illustres', Livre III: Structure et contenu. In Aufstieg und
Niedergang der römischen Welt, vol. 36: Philosophie, Wissenschaften,
Technik. 5. Teilband: Philosophie (Einzelne Autoren, Doxographica).
Edited by Haase Wolfgang. Berlin: de Gruyter 1992. pp. 3619-3760
Indices pp. 2* - 25*.
"Conclusion. Le livre III, qui, comme on peut le constater, suit un
plan assez rigoureux, présente donc un intérêt tout particulier, dans la
mesure où la dédicace qui s'y trouve insérée permet de se faire une idée du
public auquel s'adressait Diogène Laërce: il s'agissait non de spécialistes
intéressés par les doctrines philosophiques, mais d'amateurs éclairés
friands de littérature. Ce point précisé, on comprend mieux de quelle
manière procède Diogène Laërce, lorsqu'il décrit la vie de Platon, et
lorsqu'il évoque ses oeuvres et ses doctrines.
Pour fabriquer la vie de Platon, qui, pour l'essentiel, répond à des
intentions bien précises, notamment celle d'illustrer ou d'exemplifier des
points de doctrine par référence à des éléments biographiques, un certain
nombre de recettes ont été appliquées. Or, cette recherche systématique d'un
accord entre la vie de Platon et ses doctrines ne laisse pas de prêter à
cette partie du livre III l'allure d'un "roman".
En revanche, les informations que recèle la partie du livre III sur les
oeuvres et les doctrines de Platon présentent un caractère plus positif.
Diogène Laërce y donne des renseignements de première importance sur la
transmission du texte de Platon et sur sa présentation matérielle à son
époque. En outre, la doxographie que, par la suite, propose Diogène Laërce
nous permet de nous faire une idée de l'interprétation à laquelle furent
soumises les doctrines de Platon dans les tout premiers siècles de l'Empire,
période que nous connaissons mal par ailleurs.
Cela dit, on ne peut, à la suite de cette lecture "savante", manquer de se
poser cette question. Si le corpus platonicien avait été perdu, s'il n'en
restait plus que des fragments, serions-nous en mesure de relativiser
l'image que l'on pouvait se faire de Platon et de son oeuvre dans certains
milieux durant la première moitié du IIIème siècle apr. J.-C., pour
retrouver une image de Platon plus authentique, celle qu'essaie de
reconstituer un historien contemporain de la philosophie, à partir d'une
lecture systématique et assidue du corpus platonicien? Cette question
présente d'autant plus de pertinence que les oeuvres de la plupart des
philosophes qu'évoque Diogène Laërce ont été perdues en tout ou en partie."
pp. 3759-3760
Canfora Luciano. Clemente di Alessandria e Diogene
Laerzio. In Storia poesia e pensiero nel mondo antico. Studi in onore di
Marcello Gigante. Edited by Bibliopolis. Napoli: 1992. pp. 79-81
Capasso Mario. Il libro X delle Vite di Diogene
Laerzio. In Syzetesis. Studi sull'epicureismo greco e romano offerti a
Marcello Gigante. Napoli: Macchiaroli 1983. pp. 464-480
Biblioteca della Parola del passato. Vol. 16
Caujolle-Zaslawsky Françoise. Note sur l' epagogé
dans le Sophiste. A propos de Diogène Laërce III 53-55. In
Études sur le Sophiste de Platon. Edited by Aubenque Pierre. Napoli:
Bibliopolis 1991. pp. 509-534
Celluprica Vincenza, "Diocle di Magnesia come fonte della
dossografia stoica in Diogene Laerzio," Orpheus.Rivista di Umnità
Classica e Cristiana 10: 58-79 (1989).
Centrone Bruno, "Alcune osservazioni sui Placita
di Platone in Diogene Laerzio III, 67-80," Elenchos.Rivista di Studi sul
Pensiero Antico 8: 105-118 (1987).
Centrone Bruno. L'VIII libro delle 'Vite' di Diogene
Laerzio. In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, vol. 36:
Philosophie, Wissenschaften, Technik. 6. Teilband: Philosophie (Doxographica
[Forts.]). Edited by Haase Wolfgang. Berlin: de Gruyter 1992. pp.
4183-4217
Chroust Anton-Hermann, "A brief analysis of the Vita
Aristotelis of Diogenes Laertius (V, 1-16)," Antiquité Classique
34: 97-129 (1965).
Revised reprint as Chapter III in: A.-H. Chroust - Aristotle. New light
on his life and on some of his lost works - London, Routldge & Kegan
Paul, 1973, Vol. I pp. 25-53
Decleva Caizzi Fernanda. Il libro IX delle 'Vite dei
filosofi' di Diogene Laerzio. In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen
Welt, vol. 36: Philosophie, Wissenschaften, Technik. 6. Teilband:
Philosophie (Doxographica [Forts.]). Edited by Haase Wolfgang. Berlin:
de Gruyter 1992. pp. 4218-4240
Delatte Armand. La vie de Pythagore de Diogène
Laërce. Bruxelles: Lamertin 1922. Introduction pp. 5-100.
Reprint: New York, Arno Press, 1979; Hildesheim, Georg Olms, 1988; Genève,
Slatkine, 2002.
Delebecque Édouard. Essai sur la vie de Xènophon.
Paris: Klincksieck, 1957.
Desbordes Bernadette Anne, "Introduction à Diogène
Laërce. Exposition de l'Altertumswissenschaft servant de
préliminaires critiques à une lecture de l'oeuvre", Rijksuniversiteit, 1990.
Two volumes
Dorandi Tiziano. Il quarto libro delle 'Vite' di Diogene
Laerzio: l'Accademia da Speusippo a Clitomaco. In Aufstieg und
Niedergang der römischen Welt, vol. 36: Philosophie, Wissenschaften,
Technik. 5. Teilband: Philosophie (Einzelne Autoren, Doxographica).
Edited by Haase Wolfgang. Berlin: de Gruyter 1992. pp. 3761-3792
"Sebbene singoli 'Bioi' siano stati analiticamente studiati nella variet?
dei loro problemi, in particolare quelli di Speusippo, Senocrate (Isnardi
Parente / Tar?n) e Arcesilao (Long), n? sia stata trascurata una indagine
sui rapporti di Diogene Laerzio con la 'Academicorum historia' di Filodemo
(Gaiser, Gigante, Dorandi), manca, per il quarto libro, una trattazione
complessiva unitaria. Tale non possono esser considerati infatti n? la
rapida rassegna del Leo, (11) n? il profilo biografico di Antigono del
Wilamowitz, (12) interessati entrambi a enucleare piuttosto la struttura, le
fonti e la genesi formativa della compilazione diogeniana.
Il presente contributo, che ricalca idealmente le pagine della mia
Introduzione all'edizione della 'Academicorum historia' filodemea, (13)
dedicate a Filodemo quale storico dell'Academia, si propone di colmare,
almeno in parte, questa lacuna, ma anche di delineare e definire le
caratteristiche salienti del contributo di Diogene Laerzio e porre cos? i
presupposti essenziali di una progetta indagine complessiva sulla tradizione
antica dell'Academia da Speusippo Antioco." pp. 3762-3763
Dorandi Tiziano. Qualche aspetto della Vita Theophrasti
di Diogene Laerzio e il Liceo dopo Aristotele. In Theophrastus.
Reappraising the sources. Edited by Ophuijsen Johannes Van and Raalte
Marlein Van. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers 1998. pp. 29-38
Dorandi Tiziano, "La versio latina antiqua
di Diogene Laerzio e la sua recezione nel medioevo occidentale: Il
Compendium moralium notabilium di Geremia di Montagnone e il Liber
de vita et moribus philosophorum dello ps.-Burleo," Documenti e
Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 10: 371-396 (1999).
Dorandi Tiziano, "Diogenes Laertius Vitae
Philosophorum," Phronesis 45: 331-340 (2000).
Critical review of the edition by Marcovich.
Dorandi Tiziano, "Due note alla Vita di Arcesilao
di Diogene Laerzio," Prometheus 28: 52-56 (2002).
Dorandi Tiziano, "Tracce delle Vite dei filosofi
di Diogene Laerzio nell'Epistolario di Fozio?," Göttinger Forum für
Altertumswissenschaften 5: 59-63 (2003).
Dorandi Tiziano, "Diogene Laerzio a Bisanzio nel X
secolo.Studi sulla tradizione indiretta delle Vite dei filosofi,"
Byzantinische Zeitschrift 96: 123-155 (2003).
Dorandi Tiziano, "Diogène Laërce "lecteur" d'Aristote,"
Elenchos.Rivista di Studi sul Pensiero Antico 28: 435-446 (2007).
"Présente une nouvelle édition du passage que Diogène Laërce consacre à la
doctrine d'Aristote (Vies V, 27-34), accompagnée d'un apparat et de
quelques notes de lecture destinées à justifer les choix textuels."
Dorandi Tiziano, "Diogene Laerzio fra Bisanzio e l'Italia
Meridionale. La circolazione delle Vite dei filosofi tra la tarda
antichità e l'età paleologa," Segno e Testo 5: 99-172 (2007).
Dorandi Tiziano, "I manoscritti di Diogene Laerzio: un
catalogo sommario," Codices Manuscripti 62/63: 45-61 (2007).
Dorandi Tiziano, "Ricerche sulla più antica tradizione
delle Vite di Diogene Laerzio," Prometheus 34: 193-216
(2008).
Dorandi Tiziano, "Notes critiques et éxégetiques aux
livres III et V des Vies des philosophes de Diogène Laërce,"
Eikasmos.Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica 19: 241-262 (2008).
Dorandi Tiziano. Laertiana. Capitoli sulla tradizione
manoscritta e sulla storia del testo delle Vite dei filosofi di Diogene
Laerzio. Berlin: de Gruyter 2009.
Sommario: Premessa XI-XIII; I. Dai codici alle edizioni delle Vite dei
filosofi 1; II. Ricerche sulla più antica tradizione delle Vite dei
filosofi 49; III. Lettori bizantini delle Vite dei filosofi
ovvero del buon uso della tradizione 'indiretta' 125; IV. Verso uno
stemma codicum dei più antichi testimoni 195; V. Le Vite dei
filosofi tra Medioevo e Rinascimento latino 201; VI. Appendice. Peter
von der Mühll editore di Diogene Laerzio 229; VII. Bibliografia 247; VIII.
Indici 256-276
Dumont Jean Paul, "Les modèles de conversion à la
philosophie chez Diogène Laërce," Augustinus 32: 79-97 (1987).
Les quelques modèles de conversion à la philosophie que présente Diogène
établissent un ordre de filiation entre l'Académie, l'école cynique et le
Portique. Radicales, ces conversions n'obéissent pas tant aux raisons de
l'intelligence (protreptique) qu'à une intervention
incompréhensible et gratuite de la Fortune, c'est-à-dire de Dieu. Ainsi, de
spéculative la philosophie devient existentielle, préparant le terrain à la
conversion chrétienne."
Dumont Jean Paul, "La physique de Zénon d'Élée: Diogène
Laërce, Vies 9, 29," Helmantica 44: 73-90 (1993).
"Étude visant à montrer la cohérence de la physique zénonienne, sur la base
de l'examen des kephalaia d'un ouvrage de Zénon sur la physique
conservés et cités par Diogène Laërce 9, 29."
Düring Ingemar, "Ariston or Hermippus? A note on the
Catalogue of Aristotle's writings," Classica et Mediaevalia 17:
11-21 (1956).
According to P. Moraux the catalogue by Diogenes Laertius is based on the
Peripatetic philosopher Aristo of Ceos; according to I. Düring on Hermippus
of Smyrna.
Egger Victor. Disputationis de fontibus Diogenis
Laertii, particulam de successionibus philosophorum. Burdigalae: G.
Gounouilhou 1881.
Finkelberg Aryeh, "Diogenes Laertius on the Stoic
definitions of Kosmos," Scripta Classica Israelica 17:
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"La struttura del secondo libro delle 'Vite' di Diogene Laerzio è presto
detta. Rifacendosi al criterio delle 'successioni' fissato nel 'Proemio',
ribadito in questo stesso libro (II 19) e sul quale dovremo tornare, Diogene
Laerzio inizia con il bios di Anassimandro (II 1 - 2), che - a
rigore - se si prescinde dalla indicazione cronologica fornita sulla base di
Apollodoro, non è un vero e proprio bios quanto piuttosto un
compendio dossografico. Ad esso segue il bios di Anassimene (II 3 -
5), con la solita indicazione cronologica desunta da Apollodoro e quasi
interamente occupato dal testo di due lettere - certamente non autentiche -
di Anassimene a Pitagora. Inverosimile, per ragioni cronologiche, è la
notizia, desunta da fonti anonime, di un suo discepolato presso Parmenide.
A questi bioi seguono quelli di Anassagora (II 6 - 15) e di Archela
(II 16 - 17); il seguito del libro è interamente occupato dai bioi
di Socrate e dei Socratici, ad eccezione di Platone (trattato nel libro III)
e di Antistene (trattato nel libro VI): su questa parte ci soffermeremo con
particolare attenzione, dopo aver detto qualcosa sui bioi di
Anassagora ed Archelao." pp. 3603-3604
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Reprinted as Introduction to the 1983 reprint of his translation: Vite
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Also reprinted as Introduction to the 1983 reprint of his translation:
Vite dei filosofi - Bari, Laterza, 1983.
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Reprinted as Introduction to the 1983 reprint of his translation: Vite
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vita et moribus philosophorum"," Medioevo 16: 131-190 (1990).
Grignaschi Mario, "'Corrigenda et addenda' sulla
questione dello ps. Burleo," Medioevo 16: 325-352 (1990).
Gugliermina Isabelle, "Les écrits de Cratès de Thèbes
selon Diogène Laërce: (Vies et doctrines des philosophes illustres,
II, 118, 26; VI, 85-98)," Philosophie Antique 5: 3-196 (2005).
"Investigates the reasons why Diogenes Laertius does not give a full account
of Crates' literary production, and does not deal with him in the same way
he does with Antisthenes and Diogenes. Several solutions seem plausible:
Laertius may leave out some of Crates' writings on purpose, in order to
avoid repetitions in his book as a whole; since he holds Antisthenes to be
the founder of Cynicism, he deliberately passes over some of Crates'
writings which could bring their author closer to Diogenes and so highlight
the latter's prominent role in the Cynic movement; finally, since his aim is
to write a work of history of philosophy, Laertius deliberately disregards
sources foreign to this field."
Gugliermina Isabelle. Diogène Laërce et le cynisme.
Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion 2006.
Haake Matthias, "Documentary evidence, literary forgery,
or manipulation of historical documents?: Diogenes Laertius and an Athenian
honorary decree for Zeno of Citium," Classical Quarterly 54:
570-483 (2004).
"The Athenian decree honoring Zeno of Citium is considered to be a source
for the social status of philosophers in Hellenistic Athens. A remarkable
aspect of this source is that the text has not come to us as an inscription,
but is quoted by Diogenes Laertius in his « Life of Zeno » (7, 10-12). In
spite of the convincing form of the decree, the possibility of a forgery or
- most likely - the manipulation of an historical document should not be
ruled out. Analysis of the motivation clause shows elements that do not fit
the pattern of, or are incompatible with the nature of, honorary
inscriptions. It is not possible to decide whether Apollonius of Tyre,
Diogenes' source, himself copied the decree or consulted a collection."
Hahm David E. Diogenes Laertius VII: On the Stoics. In
Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, vol. 36: Philosophie,
Wissenschaften, Technik. 6. Teilband: Philosophie (Doxographica [Forts.]).
Edited by Haase Wolfgang. Berlin: de Gruyter 1992. pp. 4076-4182
Indices pp. 4404-4411.
"In this study I propose to reexamine Diogenes' composition of the seventh
book of his 'Lives' in the light of what is now known about ancient methods
of composition of informational works. By carefully picking through the text
for evidence on its construction I hope to clarify the nature and identity
of most of the sources that he used in this book. This analysis will also
bring into clearer focus his historiographical and literary objectives to
the extent that they are manifested in this book. It is my hope that these
results will, in combination with studies of other parts of his work, also
advance our understanding and appreciation of Diogenes as an author and
historian of philosophy in the early third century A. D."
Hope Richard. The book of Diogenes Laërtius. Its
spirit and its method. New York: Columbia University Press 1930.
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Laertius und zur pyrrhonischen Skepsis. Berlin: de Gruyter 2008.
Edited by Jan Janda and Filip Karfík
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der Philosophen in der hellenistischen und spätantiken Literatur", Freien
Universität, 1961.
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7: 217-243 (1986).
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des philosophes. Basel: Reinhardt 1991.
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Arcesilaus," Elenchos.Rivista di Studi sul Pensiero Antico 7:
429-449 (1986).
Maansfeld Jaap, "Diogenes Laertius on Stoic philosophy,"
Elenchos.Rivista di Studi sul Pensiero Antico 7: 295-382 (1986).
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Cambridge University Press 1999. pp. 22-44
"On the reliability of our sources -- the "doxographers" beginning with
Theophrastus, Plato, Aristotle, Diogenes Laertius, and other writers -- for
the early Greek philosophers."
Mann Wolfgang-Rainer, "The life of Aristippus,"
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Mejer Jørgen. Diogenes Laertius and his Hellenistic
background. Wiesbaden: Steiner 1978.
Contents: Preface IX; Part I: Diogenes Laertius 1; The intentions of
Diogenes' book 2; The question of sources 7; The technique of excerpting 16;
A specimen of source analysis 29; Diogenes' personality 46; Part II:
Hellenistic historiography of philosophy 60; Diadokai 62; History
of a single School 74; Peri aireseon 75; Doxography 81; Biographies
of philosophers 90; Concluding remarks 94; Bibliography 96; Index locorum
102; Index nominum 105-108.
"The original motivation for this book was a wish to sort out the many ways
in which Presocratic philosophy was transmitted in Antiquity. Only later did
I realize that such a study demanded far more knowledge and skill than I
possessed, and that any attempt to discuss the question of historiography of
philosophy in Antiquity had to be based on a fresh analysis of Diogenes
Laertius. This book is offered as a contribution to Laertian scholarship but
its value, if any, is to be decided by the extent to which it will be
followed up by further research on Hellenistic scholarship, concerning
history of philosophy and biographies of philosophers, and on the
transmission of early Greek philosophy in Antiquity. Ultimately, a History
of Historiography of Philosophy in Antiquity is to be hoped for." (from the
Preface)
Mejer Jørgen. Diogenes Laertius and the transmission of
Greek philosophy. In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, vol.
36: Philosophie, Wissenschaften, Technik. 5. Teilband: Philosophie (Einzelne
Autoren, Doxographica). Edited by Haase Wolfgang. Berlin: de Gruyter
1992. pp. 3556-3602
"It should be clear by now that Diogenes did not mindlessly copy out his
sources for his doxographical sections. He must have made an effort to find
what he considered the best sources for each philosophical school, and he
definitely had his own ideas as to the content of each doxography even if he
did not always understand the more complicated philosophical arguments. Most
of his doxographies show some affinity to the presentations of earlier Greek
philosophy, which we find in other texts from the IInd and IIIrd centuries
A. D., though in some cases he seems to have turned to older sources (e. g.
for Aristotle and Epicurus). There is no sign of any mechanical use of
sources, not even in the case of the Presocratics where he undoubtedly drew
upon a source belonging to the doxographical tradition going back to
Theophrastus. His information sometimes differs from that in Aetius and
Hippolytus. In the few longer excerpts on the Presocratics he seems to
reproduce his source(s) fairly closely but he is not averse to changing, or
even adding to, the text he found in his source. We may not always be happy
with him as a source of information on earlier Greek philosophy, but he is
neither incompetent nor consciously misleading; there is little doubt that
he can be taken to represent what an individual interested in philosophy,
(161) living somewhere in the provinces of the Roman empire in the IInd or
IIIrd centuries A. D., could do, provided he worked hard collecting and
excerpting the sources which he could find. Diogenes may not be a great
writer, and there were obviously better philosophical minds writing in his
period, but he is not to be vilified, and he has preserved much information
that would have been lost to us, had it not been for his enthusiasm and
industry." pp. 3599-3600
(161) Diogenes is usually compared to sources like Plutarch, Galen, Sextus,
and Hippolytus. They were, however, in some sense all 'professionals' and
placed in important positions with access to good libraries in major cities.
If we measure Diogenes with another stick, e. g. the philosophical knowledge
implied in Lucian's `Vitarum Auctio', his effort becomes much more
respectable.
Mejer Jørgen. Diogène Laërce. In Dictionnaire des
philosophes antiques. Vol. II. Edited by Goulet Richard. Paris: CNRS
Éditions 1994. pp. 824-833
Mejer Jørgen. Biography and doxography. Four crucial
questions raised by Diogenes Laertius. In Die griechische Biographie in
hellenistischer Zeit. Akten des internationalen Kongresses vom 26.-29. Juli
2006 in Würzburg. Edited by Erler Michael and Schorn Stefan. Berlin: de
Gruyter 2007. pp. 431-442
"Diogenes' text is divided into 10 'books' (...)
This structure is important since it seems to indicate that Diogenes' work
belongs to a type of ancient literature in which the lives of philosophers
were arranged as two or three series of biographies so that teacher and
student followed one another within each major philosophical school. This
type of literature had the title Successions of Philosophers, (5) though there are also other books with different titles that seem to
belong in this category, not least Philodemus' two surveys of the Platonic
and the Stoic schools.(6)
Some of Diogenes' biographies, however, seem to have been composed later
than the Hellenistic period (Xenophon, Democritus), and some of his reports
on philosophical systems show features that are similar to texts from the
second century AD (Plato, Skeptics). Therefore, we must ask:
To which extent is Diogenes representative of the Successions type
-- and in general of the Hellenistic tradition of biography and
historiography of philosophy?
Diogenes' biographical sections are composed of a number of items like
birth, parents, name, appearance, relationship to other philosophers,
travels, life style and circumstances of death; there is no particular order
in which these items are presented, and though many details also were found
in Hellenistic sources, they cannot have come from one particular source. In
any case, we must ask:
Is the biographical information we get, trustworthy?
The dominating element in all the biographies is Diogenes' use of anecdotes;
sometimes the same anecdote is told about more than one philosopher, hence
it is hard to believe that Diogenes himself was convinced of them being
literally true. Since it is commonly assumed that anecdotes are fictitious,
we must ask a third question:
What is the biographical value of anecdotes?
Many, but not all, of Diogenes' Lives include a section on the philosophical
ideas, if not of an individual philosopher, then at least of a philosophical
school. In the case of the Post-Socratic schools (the Cyrenaics, Plato,
Aristotle, the Cynics, the Stoics, the Skeptics and Epicurus) there is no
uniform way of presenting their philosophy: Plato is presented in the light
of second century AD Platonism, while Aristotle's philosophy seems to
represent a fairly early way of doing Peripatetic philosophy; the Stoic
philosophy is described with references to many Stoics of different periods
while Epicurus' philosophy is represented by four texts going back to
Epicurus himself. The survey of the Skeptic tropes (9,79-105) is shorter
than in Sextus Empiricus but otherwise comparable.(7)
The philosophy of the Presocratics is, however, for the most part described
by means of fairly short systematic surveys similar to what we find in
Hippolytus' Refutatio omnium haeresium Book One, and -- in content,
if not in form -- to Pseudo-Plutarch's Placita and to sections of
Stobaeus. These surveys have since Diels' pioneering work Doxographi
Graeci (1879) been called doxographical, though the term
'doxographical' unfortunately has been extended to mean any text reporting
the views of previous philosophers.
Considering this variety of philosophical information, we must ask a fourth
important question:
To which extent can we assume that Diogenes just copied his predecessors, or
to put the question in another way: are we justified in assuming that most
of the Hellenistic biographies of philosophers contained separate sections
on the philosophers' views?
I would like to discuss these four crucial questions (8) by examining
Diogenes' Life of Democritus (9,34-49) and draw some more general
conclusions on that basis."
(5) Cf. Mejer Uberlieferung der Philosophie im Altertum. Eine Einführung
(Kobenhaven, 2000). Fragments in Rosa Giannattasio Andria I
frammenti delle Suc cessioni dei filosofi (Napoli, 1989).
(6) Tiziano Dorandi's two editions of Philodemus (Dorandi Filodemo.
Storia dei filosofi. Platone e l'Accademia Napoli, 1991; Storia dei
filosofi. La Stoa da Zenone a Panezio (PHerc. 1018) Leiden-NewYork,
1994) have superseded all previous editions.
(7) For these philosophical sections in Diogenes cf. Mejer Diogenes
Laertius and the transmission of Greek philosophy (1992).
(8) A fifth important question which I shall not discuss in this context, is
to which extent Diogenes' presentations of philosophical ideas are reliable,
cf., however, the paper mentioned in the previous note.
Moraux Paul, "L'exposé de la philosophie d'Aristote chez
Diogène Laerce 5.28-34," Revue Philosophique de Louvain 47: 5-43
(1949).
"Cet exposé, qui n'est pas toujours fidèle à la pensée d'Aristote, est le
résultat d'une compilation."
Moraux Paul. Les listes anciennes des ouvrages
d'Aristote. Louvain: Éditions universitaires de Louvain 1951.
Préface par Augustin Mansion
Moraux Paul, "La composition de la Vie d'Aristote chez
Diogène Laerce," Revue des Études Grecques 53: 124-163 (1955).
"Une grande partie des inepties qui déparent cette vie s'expliquent par
l'application maladroite d'un procédé de composition singulier: des
digressions en cascades se mêlant à la narration. On peut cependant
discerner la charpente originelle de la biographie, identique à celle qu'on
trouve chez Apollodore; l'un et l'autre ont une source commune, probablement
Ariston de Céos. Diogène a étoffé ce donné primitif d'une foule de
renseignements, qu'il n'incorpora pas tous au texte, mais qu'un éditeur
stupide a transcrits en un texte continu."
Moraux Paul, "Diogène Laërce et le Peripatos,"
Elenchos.Rivista di Studi sul Pensiero Antico 7: 245-294 (1986).
Mouraviev Serge, "La Vie d'Héraclite de Diogène
Laërce (analyse stratigraphique; le texte de base; un nouveau fragment
d'Ariston de Céos?)," Phronesis 32: 1-33 (1987).
"L'analyse permet de distinguer 1) un texte de base, 2) des compléments
(doxographie, lettres, épigrammes, etc.) et 3) des additions postérieures.
Le texte de base se subdivise en une étude caractérologique, attribuable à
Ariston de Céos d'après Diogène Laërce II, 22, du fr. 13-I Wehrli d'Ariston,
et d'un pinax bibliographique. Dans une apostille est reconstituée
l'histoire du texte de la Vie et la technique de citation de Diogène."
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm, "De Laertii Diogenis
fontibus I - II," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 23: 632-653
(1868).
I. De Diocle Magnete; II. De Favorino Aretalensi.
Reprinted in: F. W. Nietzsche - Philologische Schriften (1867-1873)
- edited by Fritz Bornmann and Mario Carpitella - Nietzsche Werke.
Kritische Gesamtausgabe - Edited by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino
Montinari, vol. II, 1 Berlin, de Gruyter, 1982 pp. 75-167
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm, "De Laertii Diogenis
fontibus III - VI," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 24: 181-228
(1869).
III. De Demetrio Magnete; IV. De Demetrio Dioclis fonte; V. De ceteris
Dioclis fontibus; VI. De Laertio et Hesychio.
Reprinted in: F. W. Nietzsche - Philologische Schriften (1867-1873)
- edited by Fritz Bornmann and Mario Carpitella - Nietzsche Werke.
Kritische Gesamtausgabe - Edited by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino
Montinari, vol. II, 1 Berlin, de Gruyter, 1982 pp. 75-167
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm, "Analecta Laertiana,"
Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 25: 217-231 (1870).
Reprinted in: F. W. Nietzsche - Philologische Schriften (1867-1873)
- edited by Fritz Bornmann and Mario Carpitella - Nietzsche Werke.
Kritische Gesamtausgabe - Edited by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino
Montinari, vol. II, 1 Berlin, de Gruyter, 1982 pp. 169-190
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm. Beiträge zur
Quellenkunde und Kritik des Diogenes Laertius. Basel: Carl Schultz
1870.
1. Laertius Diogenes als Epigrammendichter 193; 2. Diokles als Hauptquelle
des Laertius Diogenes 201; 3. Favorinus als Nebenquelle des Laertius
Diogenes 207; 4. Ueberreste platonischer Schriftenverzeichnisse 211; 5. Eine
angebliche Schrift des Pythagoras 214; 6. Der codex Burbonicus des Laertius
Diogenes 216; 7. Diokles über Demokrit's Leben 218; 8. Das Zeugniss Timons
über Demokrit 222; 9. Thrasylls Verzeichniss der demokritischen Schriften
224; 10. Hermippus oder Menippus 231; 11. Der Cyniker Menippus 233;
Namenregister zu den Laertianischen Quellenstudien 241.
Reprinted in: F. W. Nietzsche - Philologische Schriften (1867-1873)
- edited by Fritz Bornmann and Mario Carpitella - Nietzsche Werke.
Kritische Gesamtausgabe - Edited by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino
Montinari, vol. II, 1 Berlin, de Gruyter, 1982 pp. 191-245.
Plezia Marian, "De Aristotelis epistulis observationes
criticae," Eos.Commentarii Societatis Philologae Polonorum 45:
77-85 (1951).
"Critique de la liste fournie par Diogène Laërce, dépendant
vraisemblablement d'Hermippe, et des témoignages, notamment de celui du
Pseudo-Démétrius, relatifs à une édition alexandrine des Épîtres, dué à
Artémon. L'activité de ce dernier se place à la fin du IV siècle av. J.C."
Ramelli Ilaria, "Diogene Laerzio e Clemente Alessandrino
nel contesto di un dibattito culturale comune," Espacio, Tiempo y Forma
15: 207-224 (2004).
"The present articie analyses the parallels between Diogenes Laertius'
Vitae Philosophorum and Ciement of Alexandria's Stromata, and
sets them both in the context of a common cultural debate concerning the
origins of philosophy."
Ramelli Ilaria, "Diogene Laerzio e i cristiani:
conoscenza e polemica con Taziano e con Clemente Alessandrino?,"
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma 15: 27-41 (2004).
"This paper studies the interrelationship between Tatian's Oratio ad
Graecos and Diogenes Laertius Vitae Philosophorum and tries to
outline the cultural debate -- involving pagans and Christians in which they
took part."
Rocca-Serra Guillaume. Parménide chez Diogène Laërce. In
Études sur Parménide. Tome II. Problèmes d'interprétation. Edited
by Aubenque Pierre. Paris: Vrin 1987. pp. 254-273
"Nous avons choisi d'organiser notre recherche autour de la notice consacrée
à Parménide par Diogène Laèrce. Une autre méthode eût consisté dans une
présentation qui aurait suivi un ordre chronologique, mais une telle
procédure supposait résolu un problème qui tourmente, au moins depuis
Nietzsche, philologues et philosophes, celui des sources de Diogène Laèrce.
Au contraire, partir de cet auteur et revenir en arrière nous évitait de
prendre des positions trop tranchées à la fois sur ses informateurs
immédiats et sur les sources de ces informateurs eux-mêmes.
L'oeuvre de Diogène constitue, on le sait, une sorte de synthèse, maladroite
et parfois mal intentionnée, de ce que l'érudition hellénistique avait
rassemblé sur le thème des «Vies et doctrines des philosophes célèbres». Sa
méthode de travail, son esprit superficiel lui ont attiré des critiques
méritées, mais il nous a conservé une masse d'informations qui font de son
livre un ouvrage indispensable. Ajoutons qu'une partie des absurdités qu'on
lui attribue pourrait parfaitement provenir de la maladresse des scribes
médiévaux." p. 254
"Cet examen, bien que partiel, de la tradition biographique et doxographique
nous aura persuadés, semble-t-il, d'abord, que les restes de cette tradition
ne représentent qu'une infime partie d'une littérature jadis très
importante. C'est ainsi que la modeste notice de Diogène nous fait entrevoir
les travaux de l'école d'Aristote, de l'érudition alexandrine, de la
doxographie sceptique.
Ensuite et surtout, on peut mettre en évidence la valeur de certaines des
indications qu'elle nous transmet. Elle nous fournit le canevas
vraisemblable de la biographie de Parménide, d'abord héritier d'une grande
famille et voué probablement à une activité politique et législatrice, puis
se tournant vers la philosophie, sans toutefois que la fine pointe de sa
pensée soit mise en évidence, et c'est là une des lacunes de la tradition.
Pourtant, bien avant K. Reinhardt 1°2, Sotion puis Diogène ont dissocié
Xénophane et Parménide, pressentant ainsi l'originalité de ce dernier. La
tradition, enfin, a retenu plus volontiers le monde de l'apparence que le
poème. C'est surtout grâce à elle que nous reconstruisons la doxa
parménidéenne, sur laquelle les parties conservées du Poème nous renseignent
guère. Elle a donc sa place dans l'approche d'un Parménide dans sa
totalité." p. 273 (notes omises)
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"Accounts of the lives of six early Peripatetic philosophers are contained
in the fifth book of Diogenes Laertius' 'Vitae philosophorum': the lives of
the first four leaders of the sect -- Aristotle, Theophrastus, Strato, and
Lyco -- and those of two outstanding members -- Demetrius of Phalerum and
Heraclides of Pontus. Our knowledge of the history of two rival schools, the
Academy and the Stoa, is aided not only by the lives of several members of
these two schools in Books Four and Seven of Diogenes' work, but also by
accounts in the `Index Academicorum' and the 'Index Stoicorum' which have
been preserved for us among the several papyri from Herculaneum.(1) But for
the Peripatos there is no such second source of information. There are, to
be sure, numerous bits and pieces of evidence which concern the school and
its members scattered throughout ancient and medieval literature, many of
which have been made readily accessible by F. Wehrli in his well-known
series 'Die Schule des Aristoteles'.(2) Moreover, in addition to Diogenes'
version, several other lives of Aristotle have come down to us and have been
collected and analyzed in detail by I. Düring in his 'Aristotle in the
Ancient Biographical Tradition'.(3) But for the lives and careers of other
Peripatetics, Diogenes' accounts are the only ones available to us.
All of the many aspects of these six lives cannot be discussed here with
comprehensive thoroughness. Rather, relying on the studies and findings of
past scholars, sometimes heavily, I shall offer a compilation of those
findings in a systematic manner. Although oversimplification is inevitable
in view of the many complex problems encountered in these lives,
consideration will be given to general matters of content, structure,
organization, and arrangement of material in Book Five as a whole, to the
different categories of information in the individual lives, and to the two
most striking features of this book which set it apart from other books: the
wills of the first four scholarchs and the extensive catalogues of writings
included by Diogenes for five of the six philosophers." pp. 3793-3794
(1) P. Herc. 1021 (and 164) and 1018 respectively, edited by S. Mekler,
Academicorum Philosophorum Index Herculanensis (Berlin, 1902), which
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2nd ed. vol. 1 - 2 (Basel, 1967), vol. 3 --10 (Basel, 1969), suppl. vol. I
(Basel, 1974), and suppl. vol. 2 (Basel, 1978). The fragments of
Theophrastus, not included by Wehrli are being prepared by a team of
scholars headed by W. Fortenbaugh in a series of volumes which is scheduled
to appear soon. [Theophrastus of Eresus. Sources for his life, writings,
thought and influence. Edited by Fortenbaugh William W. et al. Leiden:
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(3) Ingemar Düring Ingemar. Aristotle in the ancient biographical tradition.
Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensis 5 (Göteborg, 1957).
On the Catalogue of Aristotles' writings see § 2. Writings pp.
3849-3855.
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"Diogenes' approach to writing about philosophical history in terms of
biography is also an attempt to construct a life-story of philosophy.
Evidence includes Diogenes Laertius 1, 13-18; 2, 47; and 4, 28-29"
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