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Life of Socrates (Diogenes Laertius, Lives II 18–47)

Βίοι καὶ γνῶμαι τῶν ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ εὐδοκιμησάντων, II 18–47

Busto de Sócrates (Louvre)
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The fullest ancient biography: his parents' family and trades, the campaigns, the marriages to Xanthippe and Myrto, the text of the indictment Favorinus says he saw in the Metroon, the vote count, dozens of sayings and anecdotes—Xanthippe and the water, the agora full of things he does not need—and Apollodorus' chronology. The main source of almost all the anecdotes in circulation about Socrates.

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Authorship note

A chapter of the work of Diogenes Laertius (3rd century CE), a compiler writing more than six centuries later. It gathers reports from lost authors (Aristoxenus, Demetrius of Phalerum, Favorinus) without checking them: useful for chronology and anecdotes, unreliable in detail.

Editions and translations

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English

  • Lives of the Eminent Philosophers — Socrates

    Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

    Oxford University Press, 2018

    Translation: Pamela Mensch

    ISBN 9780190862176

    Edición de James Miller.

  • The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

    Project Gutenberg (trad. de C. D. Yonge, Bohn, 1853), 1853

    Translation: Charles Duke Yonge

    Dominio público.

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Español

  • Los diez libros de Diógenes Laercio: Sócrates

    Wikisource (trad. de José Ortiz y Sanz, Madrid, 1792), 1792

    Translation: José Ortiz y Sanz

    Dominio público.

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  • Vidas de filósofos ilustres — Socrates

    Vidas de filósofos ilustres

    Omega, 2002

    ISBN 9788428213653

  • Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres — Socrates

    Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres

    Alianza Editorial, 2013

    Translation: Carlos García Gual

    ISBN 9788420676975

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Sources

  • Diógenes Laercio. Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres, libro II, 18–47 (Sócrates), s. III d. C. Trad. inglesa de C. D. Yonge, Bohn, Londres, 1853 (Project Gutenberg n.º 57342); trad. española de José Ortiz y Sanz, Madrid, 1792 (Wikisource).

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