Category: Biographies
ANAXIMANDER 57 ANAXIMENES 57 ARCHELAUS 62 SOCRATES 63 XENOPHON 75 ÆSCHINES 79 ARISTIPPUS 81 PHÆDO 96 EUCLIDES 97 STILPO 100 CRITO 103 SIMON 104 GLAUCO 104 SIMIAS 105 CEBES 105 MENEDEMUS 105
I. Epicurus was an Athenian, and the son of Neocles and Chærestrate, of the burgh of Gargettus, and of the family of the Philaidæ, as Metrodorus tells us in his treatise on Nobi...
16. BOOK VII.II. He had his head naturally bent on one side, as Timotheus, the Athenian, tells us, in his work on Lives. And Apollonius, the Tyrian, says that he was thin, very tall, of a da...
11. BOOK II.II. He used to assert that the principle and primary element of all things was the Infinity, giving no exact definition as to whether he meant air or water, or anything else. An...
10. BOOK I.I. Some say that the study of philosophy originated with the barbarians. In that among the Persians there existed the Magi,[1] and among the Babylonians or Assyrians the Chaldæi...
18. BOOK IX.II. He was above all men of a lofty and arrogant spirit, as is plain from his writings, in which he says, “Abundant learning does not form the mind; for if it did, it would have...
15. BOOK VI.I. Antisthenes was an Athenian, the son of Antisthenes. And he was said not to be a legitimate Athenian; in reference to which he said to some one who was reproaching him with t...
12. BOOK III.I. Plato was the son of Ariston and Perictione or Potone, and a citizen of Athens; and his mother traced her family back to Solon; for Solon had a brother named Dropidas, who ha...
14. BOOK V.I. Aristotle was the son of Nicomachus and Phæstias, a citizen of Stagira; and Nicomachus was descended from Nicomachus, the son of Machaon, the son of Æsculapius, as Hermippus...
17. BOOK VIII.I. Since we have now gone through the Ionian philosophy, which was derived from Thales, and the lives of the several illustrious men who were the chief ornaments of that school;...
13. BOOK IV.I. The long account which I have given of Plato was compiled to the best of my power, and in it I collected with great zeal and industry all that was reported of the man.
9. BOOK X.Diogenes, the author of the following work, was a native (as is generally believed) of Laërte, in Cilicia, from which circumstance he derived the cognomen of Laërtius. Little is...
2. BOOK II.ANAXIMANDER 57 ANAXIMENES 57 ARCHELAUS 62 SOCRATES 63 XENOPHON 75 ÆSCHINES 79 ARISTIPPUS 81 PHÆDO 96 EUCLIDES 97 STILPO 100 CRITO 103 SIMON 104 GLAUCO 104 SIMIAS 105 CEBES 105 M...
8. BOOK IX.1. BOOK I.3. BOOK IV.5. BOOK VI.7. BOOK VIII.6. BOOK VII.4. BOOK V.