Diogenes Laertius loved telling fancy anecdotes concerning diets of great Greek philosophers. Green figs were Zeno's favorite ...

Much of what makes Diogenes the Cynic (d. ca. 323 B.C.) such a fascinating but difficult figure to reckon with can be gleaned from the opening anecdote of the most complete surviving biography of the ...

And it happened that someone came to speak with reproach about the fact that he had been exiled. But Diogenes replied abruptly, saying: “No, you dense fellow, that is how I came to be a philosopher.” ...

This book, Laertii Diogenis Vitae et sententiae eorum qui in philosophia probati fuerunt (Lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius), was printed in 1475 by Nicholas Jenson (1420-1480) in Venice.

Diogenes Laertius compiled “Lives of the Eminent Philosophers” sometime early in the 3rd century. Virtually nothing is known about him, but his book enjoyed centuries of esteem as a richly anecdotal ...

This book, Laertii Diogenis Vitae et sententiae eorum qui in philosophia probati fuerunt (Lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius), was printed in 1475 by Nicholas Jenson (1420-1480) in Venice.