Lives of eminent philosophers / Diogenes Laertius ; edited with introduction by Tiziano Dorandi, Directeur de recherche, CNRS Paris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diogenes Laertius, author.

Contributor:

Dorandi, Tiziano, editor.

Series:

Cambridge classical texts and commentaries ; 50.

Cambridge classical texts and commentaries ; 50

Standardized Title:

Lives, teachings, and sayings of famous philosophers. Greek (Dorandi)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophers, Ancient--Biography.

Philosophers, Ancient.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 943 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; I Manuscripts; (i) Continuous manuscripts; (ii) The 'excerpta Vaticana' and the'excerptum Vindobonense'; (iii) The manuscripts of the 'Life of Plato' (Book 3); II Testimonia; (i) The Greek Anthology and the Suda; (ii) Arsenius and ps.-Eudocia; (iii) Latin translations; III Editions of the 'Lives' from the 'Frobeniana' toMarcovich; IV History of the text; (i) From Usener toKnoepfler; (ii) New evidence for the history of the text; (ii.1) The continuous manuscripts B, P and F (Ω) and the descendantsof P

(ii.2) The oldest 'vulgate' tradition (α)(ii.3) The 'recentiores'; (ii.4) The 'excerpta Vaticana' (Φ); (ii.5) The other Byzantine excerpts; (ii.6) The manuscripts of the 'Life of Plato'; (ii.7) The geographical unity of the transmission; (ii.8) Was Ω written in uncial?; (ii.9) Χ, and beyond Χ; V Stemma; VI Principles and arrangement of this edition; (i) Preliminaries; (i.1) The parallel tradition; (i.2) Quotations; (i.3) Diogenes Laertius' 'Epicurea'; (i.4) Arrangement of the text; (i.5) Titles of the biographies; (i.6) Morphology; (ii) Levels of apparatus; (iii) Subsidium interpretationis

(iv) Appendices(v) Index nominum; Text and CriticalApparatus; Sigla; Index Locupletior; Liber I; Liber II; Liber III; Liber IV; Liber V; Liber VI; Liber VII; Liber VIII; Liber IX; Liber X; Subsidium Interpretationis; Appendices; I Metres of Diogenes Laertius' poems (with theexception of elegiac distichs); II Some addenda to Laertiana; III Additamentum; Abbreviations and Bibliography; I Select abbreviations; II Select bibliography; (i) Editions of Diogenes Laertius; (ii) Other works; Index Nominum

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-35720-9

1-107-35220-7

1-107-23377-1

1-107-34873-0

1-107-34133-7

1-107-34508-1

1-107-34758-0

0-511-84344-5

OCLC:

862938481