Lives & Memoirs
Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume 2
Diogenes Laertius
2026
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Almost everything we know about the private lives of the Greek philosophers, we know from this man. Laertius compiles the schools with an antiquarian's magpie appetite: the doctrines, the wills, the letters, the feuds, and the deaths both dignified and ridiculous. He is not a critical historian, and that is the point. He wrote down what the ancient world actually said about its own thinkers.
Inside this audiobook
43 chapters
- 1Book VI. Chapter 1. Antisthenes15m
- 2Book VI. Chapter 2, part 1. Diogenes24m
- 3Book VI. Chapter 2, part 2. Diogenes (continued)25m
- 4Book VI. Chapter 3. Monimus3m
- 5Book VI. Chapter 4. Onesicritus1m
- 6Book VI. Chapter 5. Crates7m
- 7Book VI. Chapter 6. Metrocles3m
- 8Book VI. Chapter 7. Hipparchia3m
- 9Book VI. Chapter 8. Menippus3m
- 10Book VI. Chapter 9. Menedemus4m
- 11Book VII. Chapter 1, part 1. Zeno28m
- 12Book VII. Chapter 1, part 2. Zeno (continued)34m
- 13Book VII. Chapter 1, part 3. Zeno (continued)32m
- 14Book VII. Chapter 1, part 4. Zeno (continued)36m
- 15Book VII. Chapter 1, part 5. Zeno (continued)33m
- 16Book VII. Chapter 2. Ariston4m
- 17Book VII. Chapter 3. Herillus2m
- 18Book VII. Chapter 4. Dionysius3m
- 19Book VII. Chapter 5. Cleanthes10m
- 20Book VII. Chapter 6. Sphærus3m
- 21Book VII. Chapter 7. Chrysippus26m
- 22Book VIII. Chapter 1. Pythagoras47m
- 23Book VIII. Chapter 2. Empedocles22m
- 24Book VIII. Chapter 3. Epicharmus2m
- 25Book VIII. Chapter 4. Archytas4m
- 26Book VIII. Chapters 5-7. Alcmæon, Hippasus, Philolaus4m
- 27Book VIII. Chapter 8. Eudoxus6m
- 28Book IX. Chapter 1. Heraclitus18m
- 29Book IX. Chapter 2. Xenophanes4m
- 30Book IX. Chapter 3. Parmenides4m
- 31Book IX. Chapter 4. Melissus2m
- 32Book IX. Chapter 5. Zeno of Elea5m
- 33Book IX. Chapter 6. Leucippus4m
- 34Book IX. Chapter 7. Democritus20m
- 35Book IX. Chapter 8. Protagoras9m
- 36Book IX. Chapter 9. Diogenes of Apollonia2m
- 37Book IX. Chapter 10. Anaxarchus3m
- 38Book IX. Chapter 11. Pyrrho43m
- 39Book IX. Chapter 12. Timon8m
- 40Book X, part 1. Epicurus27m
- 41Book X, part 2. Epicurus (continued) -- Epistle on Physics39m
- 42Book X, part 3. Epicurus (continued) -- Epistle on Celestial Phenomena24m
- 43Book X, part 4. Epicurus (continued)31m
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