Diogenes Laertios
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Diogenes Laertios (Διογένης Λαέρτιος / Diogenês Laertios e gregach), a oa ur barzh, skrivagner, buhezskridour, ha prederour hellazat. Kontet eo gant lod da vezañ bet genidik eus kêr Laertios e Kilikia (Azia Vihanañ), deroù an IIIed kantved), gant lod all da vezañ a orin roman eus tiegezh al Laertii..
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[kemmañ] E vuhez
N'ouzer mann eus e vuhez. Bevet en deus war-lerc'h Sextus Empiricus moarvat(war-dro 200 AD), meneget gantañ, hag a-raok Stephanus of Byzantium (c. 500 AD), a veneg e skridoù.
Krediñ a c'haller e vevas e-pad hanterenn gentañ an trede kantved en amzer renad Alexander Severus (222–235) hag e warlerc'hidi.
[kemmañ] Oberoù
Betek e vennozhioù a zo diasur. Darn a lare e oa kristen. Met da grediñ eo e oa pe arvarour (pironad) pe gentoc'h epikurad. [1]
Dleet eo e vrud d'un oberenn anvet Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, skrivet e gregach, ma lavar kontañ eus buhezioù ha lavaredoù prederourien veur Hellaz.
Although it is at best an uncritical and unphilosophical compilation, its value, as giving us an insight into the private lives of the Greek sages, justly led Montaigne to exclaim that he wished that instead of one Laërtius there had been a dozen. On the other hand, modern scholars have advised that we take Diogenes' testimonia with a grain of salt, especially when he fails to cite his sources; for instance, an editor of a modern, scholarly edition of Lives says, "Diogenes has acquired an importance out of all proportion to his merits because the loss of many primary sources and of the earlier secondary compilations has accidentally left him the chief continuous source for the history of Greek philosophy."[2]
Diogenes treats his subject in two divisions which he describes as the Ionian and the Italian schools; the division is somewhat dubious and appears to be drawn from the lost doxography of Sotion. The biographies of the former begin with Anaximander, and end with Clitomachus, Theophrastus and Chrysippus; the latter begins with Pythagoras, and ends with Epicurus. The Socratic school, with its various branches, is classed with the Ionic; while the Eleatics and sceptics are treated under the Italic.
The whole of the last book is devoted to Epicurus, and contains three most interesting letters addressed to Herodotus, Pythocles and Menoeceus. His chief authorities were Diocles of Magnesia's Cursory Notice of Philosophers and Favorinus's Miscellaneous History and Memoirs. From the statements of Burlaeus (Walter Burley, a 14th-century monk) in his De vita et moribus philosophorum the text of Diogenes seems to have been much fuller than that which we now possess.
Ouzhpenn an oberenn-se en deus skrivet ul levr, e gwerzennoù a bep ment, diwar-benn tud brudet.
[kemmañ] Quotation
- The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
[kemmañ] Notennoù
[kemmañ] Lennadurezh
- Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers ISBN 0-674-99204-0
- Barnes, Jonathan, "Diogenes Laertius IX 61-116: the philosophy of Pyrrhonism" in W. Haase and H. Temporini (ed.) Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, II 36.6 (de Gruyter: Berlin/New York, 1992): pp. 4241-4301.
[kemmañ] Liammoù diavaez
- On-line version of Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
- Diogenes Laertius: the Manuscripts of "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosphers" (notes on the publication history of Diogenes Laertius, from R.D. Hicks' edition of the "Lives", 1925)
- On-line version of the ancient Greek text of Diogenes' Lives
