Academic study
Life of Diogenes (Diogenes Laertius, Book VI)
Διογένης (Βίοι καὶ γνῶμαι VI 20–81)
The longest surviving biography of Diogenes and the source of almost everything known about him: the exile from Sinope, the jar in the Metroon, the sale to Xeniades, the versions of his death, the list of his writings and some two hundred anecdotes. Laertius cites his sources and often notes discrepancies, which allows modern criticism partly to separate the layers of the tradition.
Authorship note
A work by Diogenes Laertius (third century CE), not by Diogenes of Sinope. It is a compilation of Hellenistic sources—Diocles, Eubulides, Satyrus, Sotion, Menippus, Eubulus, Hecato, Metrocles—of very uneven value.
Editions and translations
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English
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Oxford University Press, 2018
Translation: Pamela Mensch (ed. James Miller)
ISBN 9780190862176
Traducción completa con ensayos complementarios.
Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume II: Books 6–10 (Loeb Classical Library 185)
Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library), 1925
Translation: R. D. Hicks
ISBN 9780674992047
Edición bilingüe griego-inglés; el ISBN corresponde a la reimpresión registrada en Open Library.
Diogenes of Sinope
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
The Conscious LibraryThe Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Project Gutenberg (trad. de C. D. Yonge, Bohn, 1853), 1853
Translation: C. D. Yonge
Dominio público.
Español
Diogenes of Sinope
Los diez libros de Diógenes Laercio sobre las vidas, opiniones y sentencias de los filósofos más ilustres, tomo II
The Conscious LibraryLos diez libros de Diógenes Laercio sobre las vidas, opiniones y sentencias de los filósofos más ilustres, tomo II
Imprenta Real (ed. digital en Internet Archive), 1792
Translation: José Ortiz y Sanz
Dominio público.
La secta del perro. Diógenes Laercio: Vidas de los filósofos cínicos
Alianza Editorial, 1987
Translation: Carlos García Gual
ISBN 9788420602509
Traducción del libro VI de Diógenes Laercio con estudio sobre el cinismo.
Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres
Alianza Editorial, 2013
Translation: Carlos García Gual
ISBN 9788420676975
Traducción completa de las Vidas; registro de Open Library de 2013.
Other works by Diogenes of Sinope
- Sayings and anecdotes (chreiai) · 300
- Republic (Politeia)
- Letters of Diogenes (Cynic Epistles) · 50
- Letters
- Cephalion
- Ichthyas
- The Jackdaw
- Pordalus
- The Athenian Demos
- Art of Ethics
- On Wealth
- Erotikos (On Love)
- Theodorus
- Hypsias
- Aristarchus
- On Death
- Helen
- Thyestes
- Heracles
- Achilles
- Medea
- Chrysippus
- Oedipus
- On Virtue
- On the Good
- The Beggar
- Tolmaeus
- Casandrus
- Philiscus
- Sisyphus
- Ganymede
- Chreiai (Anecdotes)
Sources
- Diógenes Laercio. Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres, libro VI, 20–81 (Diógenes), 85–93 (Crates) y 104–105 (doctrina cínica), s. III d. C. Trad. inglesa de R. D. Hicks, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. II, Loeb Classical Library 185, Heinemann / Harvard University Press, 1925 (Wikisource en inglés); texto griego en Wikisource griega; trad. de C. D. Yonge, Bohn, Londres, 1853 (Project Gutenberg n.º 57342).
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