Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Informationen zum Autor Tiziano Dorandi is Directeur de recherche at the CNRS (Centre Jean Pépin, UPR 76) in Villejuif, France. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung A new critical edition of Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers! a unique work which has had a profound influence on European literature and philosophy. A lengthy introduction lists all the manuscripts of the Lives and discusses its transmission in late antiquity! the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Abbreviations and bibliography; Text (books 1-10); Sigla; Breviata; Svbsidivm interpretationis (books 1-10); Appendices; Index of proper names.

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

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• Authors: Tiziano Dorandi, Tiziano (Centre National De La Recherche Dorandi
• Assisted by: Tiziano Dorandi (Editor), Dorandi Tiziano (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2017
• EAN: 9781316642856
• ISBN: 978-1-316-64285-6
• No. of pages: 956
• Series: Cambridge Classical Texts and; Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries; Cambridge Classical Texts and
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500