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Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Contributor(s): Dorandi, Tiziano (Editor)
ISBN: 1316642852     ISBN-13: 9781316642856
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $60.79  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical
- Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval
Series: Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
Physical Information: 1.88" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (2.39 lbs) 956 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
 
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Publisher Description:
This edition presents a radically improved text of Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers. The text is accompanied by a three level apparatus. A lengthy introduction list all the manuscripts of Diogenes' Lives and discusses its transmission in Late Antiquity and Medieval and Renaissance Periods. There is also a index of personal names, a bibliography and some notes which cover several features of the text and its interpretation. Tiziano Dorandi has used the Nachla of Peter Von der M hll, 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 work unique in his kind, and which has had a profound influence on European literature and philosophy - has ever received.

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