Another suggestion is that one of his ancestors had for a patron a member of the Roman family of the Laërtii. Stephanus of Byzantium refers to him as "Διογένης ὁ Λαερτιεύς" ( Diogenes ho Laertieus), implying that he was the native of some town, perhaps the Laerte in Caria (or another Laerte in Cilicia). The origin of the name "Laertius" is also uncertain. He is also referred to as "Laertes" or simply "Diogenes". The modern form "Diogenes Laertius" is much rarer, used by Stephanus of Byzantium, and in a lemma to the Greek Anthology. The ancient manuscripts invariably refer to a "Laertius Diogenes", and this form of the name is repeated by Sopater and the Suda. The precise form of his name is uncertain. Hence he is assumed to have flourished in the first half of the 3rd century, during the reign of Alexander Severus (222–235) and his successors. His work makes no mention of Neoplatonism, even though it is addressed to a woman who was "an enthusiastic Platonist". 200), whom he mentions, and before Stephanus of Byzantium and Sopater of Apamea (c. Laërtius must have lived after Sextus Empiricus (c. Due to the loss of so many of the primary sources on which Diogenes relied, his work has become the foremost surviving source on the history of Greek philosophy. However, unlike many other ancient secondary sources, Diogenes Laërtius generally reports philosophical teachings without attempting to reinterpret or expand on them, which means his accounts are often closer to the primary sources. He also frequently focuses on trivial or insignificant details of his subjects' lives while ignoring important details of their philosophical teachings and he sometimes fails to distinguish between earlier and later teachings of specific philosophical schools. His reputation is controversial among scholars because he often repeats information from his sources without critically evaluating it. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a principal source for the history of ancient Greek philosophy. 3rd century AD) was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. For other people named Diogenes, see Diogenes (disambiguation).ĭiogenes Laërtius ( / d aɪ ˌ ɒ dʒ ɪ n iː z l eɪ ˈ ɜːr ʃ i ə s/ dy- OJ-in-eez lay- UR-shee-əs Greek: Διογένης Λαέρτιος, Laertios fl.
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