Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers: 50 (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, Series Number 50) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1316642852 ISBN 13: 9781316642856

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This edition presents a radically improved text of Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers. The text is accompanied by a full critical apparatus on three levels. A lengthy introduction lists all the manuscripts of the Lives and discusses its transmission in late antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. There is also an index of personal names, a bibliography and notes covering several features of the text and its interpretation. Professor Dorandi has used the Nachlaß of Peter Von der Mühll, for the first time in its entirety, to verify and consolidate material that he had previously gathered. This is by far the most detailed and elaborate edition which Diogenes' Lives - a unique work which has had a profound influence on European literature and philosophy - has ever received.

About this title

Book Description:

A new critical edition of Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers, a unique work which has had a profound influence on European literature and philosophy. A lengthy introduction lists all the manuscripts of the Lives and discusses its transmission in late antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

About the Author:

Tiziano Dorandi is Directeur de recherche at the CNRS (Centre Jean Pépin, UPR 76) in Villejuif, France.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1316642852
• ISBN 13: 9781316642856
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 956
• Editor: Dorandi Tiziano