# The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

By Diogenes Laertius

- Written in Ancient Greek; this edition is an English translation
- About 190,861 words

## Chapters

1. [PREFACE.](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/1.md)
2. [BOOK I. — INTRODUCTION.](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/2.md)
3. [I. Thales, then, as Herodotus and Duris and Democritus say, was the](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/3.md)
4. [I. Pittacus was a native of Mitylene, and son of Hyrradius. But Duris](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/4.md)
5. [I. Cleobulus was a native of Lindus, and the son of Evagoras; but](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/5.md)
6. [I. Periander was a Corinthian, the son of Cypselus, of the family of](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/6.md)
7. [I. Anacharsis the Scythian was the son of Gnurus, and the brother of](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/7.md)
8. [I. Epimenides, as Theopompus and many other writers tell us, was the son](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/8.md)
9. [I. Pherecydes was a Syrian, the son of Babys, and, as Alexander says, in](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/9.md)
10. [BOOK II. — I. Anaximander, the son of Praxiadas, was a citizen of Miletus.](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/10.md)
11. [I. Anaximenes, the son of Eurystratus, a Milesian, was a pupil of](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/11.md)
12. [I. Archelaus was a citizen of either Athens or Miletus, and his father’s](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/12.md)
13. [I. Socrates was the son of Sophroniscus, a statuary, and of Phænarete, a](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/13.md)
14. [I. Xenophon, the son of Gryllus, a citizen of Athens, was of the borough](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/14.md)
15. [I. Æschines was the son of Charinus, the sausage-maker, but, as some](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/15.md)
16. [I. Aristippus was by birth a Cyrenean, but he came to Athens, as Æschines](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/16.md)
17. [I. Euclides was a native of Megara on the Isthmus, or of Gela,](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/17.md)
18. [I. Stilpo, a native of Megara in Greece, was a pupil of some of Euclides’](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/18.md)
19. [Glauco was an Athenian; and there are nine dialogues of his extant,](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/19.md)
20. [Simias was a Theban; and there are twenty-three dialogues of his extant,](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/20.md)
21. [XII. Menedemus was not easy to be understood, and in his conversation](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/21.md)
22. [BOOK III.](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/22.md)
23. [BOOK IV.](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/23.md)
24. [X. Speusippus said to a rich man who was in love with an ugly woman,](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/24.md)
25. [I. Xenocrates was the son of Agathenor, and a native of Chalcedon. From](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/25.md)
26. [I. Polemo was the son of Philostratus, an Athenian, of the burgh of Œa.](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/26.md)
27. [I. Crates was the son of Antigenes, and of the Thriasian burgh, and](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/27.md)
28. [I. Crantor, a native of Soli, being admired very greatly in his own](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/28.md)
29. [I. Arcesilaus was the son of Seuthes or Scythes, as Apollodorus states in](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/29.md)
30. [I. Lacydes, the son of Alexander, was a native of Cyrene. He it is who](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/30.md)
31. [I. Carneades was the son of Epicomus, or Philocomus, as Alexander states](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/31.md)
32. [I. Clitomachus was a Carthaginian. He was called Asdrubal, and used to](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/32.md)
33. [BOOK V. — I. Aristotle was the son of Nicomachus and Phæstias, a citizen of](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/33.md)
34. [I. Theophrastus was a native of Eresus, the son of Melantas, a fuller,](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/34.md)
35. [I. Demetrius was a native of Phalerus, and the son of Phanostratus. He](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/35.md)
36. [I. Heraclides was the son of Euthyphron, and was born at Heraclea, in](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/36.md)
37. [BOOK VI. — I. Antisthenes was an Athenian, the son of Antisthenes. And he was](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/37.md)
38. [I. Diogenes was a native of Sinope, the son of Hicesius, a money-changer.](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/38.md)
39. [I. Monimus was a Syracusan, and a pupil of Diogenes, but also a slave](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/39.md)
40. [I. Onesicritus is called by some authors an Æginetan, but Demetrius the](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/40.md)
41. [I. Crates was a Theban by birth, and the son of Ascondus. He also was one](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/41.md)
42. [I. Metrocles was the brother of Hipparchia; and though he had formerly](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/42.md)
43. [I. Hipparchia, the sister of Metrocles, was charmed among others, by the](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/43.md)
44. [I. Menippus was also a Cynic, and a Phœnician by descent, a slave by](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/44.md)
45. [I. Menedemus was a disciple of Colotes of Lampsacus.](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/45.md)
46. [BOOK VII.](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/46.md)
47. [I. Ariston the Bald, a native of Chios, surnamed the Siren, said, that](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/47.md)
48. [I. Herillus, a native of Carthage, said that the chief good was](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/48.md)
49. [I. Dionysius, the Deserter, as he was called, asserted that pleasure](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/49.md)
50. [I. Cleanthes was a native of Assos, and the son of Phanias. He was](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/50.md)
51. [I. Sphærus, a native of the Bosphorus, was, as we have said before, a](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/51.md)
52. [I. Chrysippus was the son of Apollonius, and a native of either Soli or](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/52.md)
53. [BOOK VIII.](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/53.md)
54. [Pythagoras, too, formed many excellent men in Italy, by his precepts,](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/54.md)
55. [I. Empedocles, as Hippobotus relates, was the son of Meton, the son of](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/55.md)
56. [I. Epicharmus was a native of Cos, the son of Helothales; he also was](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/56.md)
57. [I. Archytas was a native of Tarentum, and the son of Mnesagoras; or, as](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/57.md)
58. [I. Alcmæon was a citizen of Crotona; he also was a pupil of Pythagoras.](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/58.md)
59. [I. Hippasus was a citizen of Metapontum, and a pupil of Pythagoras.](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/59.md)
60. [I. Philolaus was a native of Crotona, and a pupil of Pythagoras, it was](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/60.md)
61. [I. Eudoxus was the son of Æschines, and a native of Cnidus. He was an](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/61.md)
62. [BOOK IX. — I. Heraclitus was the son of Blyson, or, as some say, of Heracion, and a](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/62.md)
63. [I. Xenophanes was the son of Dexius, or, as Apollodorus says, of](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/63.md)
64. [I. Parmenides, the son of Pyres, and a citizen of Velia, was a pupil of](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/64.md)
65. [I. Melissus was a Samian, and the son of Ithagenes. He was a pupil](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/65.md)
66. [I. Leucippus was a native of Velia, but, as some say, of Abdera; and, as](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/66.md)
67. [I. Democritus was the son of Hegesistratus, but as some say, of](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/67.md)
68. [I. Protagoras was the son of Artemon, or, as Apollodorus says (which](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/68.md)
69. [I. Anaxarchus was a native of Abdera. He was a pupil of Diogenes, of](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/69.md)
70. [I. Pyrrho was a citizen of Elis, and the son of Pleistarchus, as Diocles](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/70.md)
71. [BOOK X. — I. Epicurus was an Athenian, and the son of Neocles and Chærestrate, of](https://yarrow.to/novel/lives-of-eminent-philosophers/c/71.md)

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*The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers* by Diogenes Laertius. Public domain.
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