Lives of the Eminent Philosophers - Diogenes Laertius

Category: Misc. Non-fiction, Tutorial
Language: English
Keywords: Ancient Greece History Philosophy

Written by Diogenes Laertius
Read by Jennifer M. Dixon
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 96 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 28 hrs and 33 mins
Source: Audible
Files: MP3 files split into chapters
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Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering 12-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide variety of ideas and examples to follow. 

This rich tradition was recast by Diogenes Laërtius into an anthology, a miscellany of maxims and anecdotes, that generations of Western readers have consulted for edification as well as entertainment ever since Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, first compiled in the AD third century, came to prominence in Renaissance Italy. To this day, it remains a crucial source for much of what we know about the origins and practice of philosophy in ancient Greece, covering a longer period of time and a larger number of figures - from Pythagoras and Socrates to Aristotle and Epicurus - than any other ancient source.
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