The Loeb Classical Library: Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume II : Books 6–10

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The Loeb Classical Library: Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume II : Books 6–10Examined lives. Diogenes Laertius, author of a work on Greek philosophy, lived probably in the earlier half of the third century, his ancestry and birthplace being unknown. He was an Epicurean philosopher, but his work is not philosophical. The title is History of Philosophy or On the Lives, Opinions, and Sayings of Famous Philosophers; the work, in ten books, is divided unscientifically into two Successions or sections: Ionian from Anaximander to

Martial shamelessly flatters his patron Domitian

the result of careful research and detective work

shows how Juvenal systematically attributes to his monstrous women the inverse of the Roman wife's canonical virtues

It consists of two volumes

and of some plays not assignable

which has recently become much more popular as a field of study and teaching in Latin literature

curious anecdote in Arion and the dolphin

but in the last section Alciphron presents us with several attempts at historical fiction

Examined lives

Ο διεθνής συγγραφέας μας

The Fratricides is about internecine strife in a village in the Epirus during the Greek civil war of the late 1940s

The purpose of these poems is unclear