Diogenes Laërtius · fl. 3rd century CE
Lives of the Stoics (Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VII)
Translation by R. D. Hicks (1925) · 204 passages · 7 sections
Diogenes Laërtius's lives of Zeno and his successors — Ariston, Herillus, Dionysius, Cleanthes, Sphaerus and Chrysippus — with his summary of Stoic logic, physics and ethics: anecdotes, sayings and doctrines of the early Stoa, compiled centuries later from earlier sources.
Reported speech. Diogenes Laërtius reports what the Stoics said and taught; these are his words about them, not their own writings. Citations name both.
Contents
- ZenoChapter 1. Zeno (333-261 B.C.)160 passages
- AristonChapter 2. Ariston (c. 320-250 B.C.)5 passages
- HerillusChapter 3. Herillus (flor. c. 260 B.C.)2 passages
- DionysiusChapter 4. Dionysius (c. 330-250 B.C.)2 passages
- CleanthesChapter 5. Cleanthes (331-232 B.C.)9 passages
- SphaerusChapter 6. Sphaerus (flor. c. 220 B.C.)2 passages
- ChrysippusChapter 7. Chrysippus (c. 282-206 B.C.)24 passages
Source and licence
- Edition
- Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VII, translated by R. D. Hicks (Loeb Classical Library, 1925)
- Status
- Tier A: Public domain in the UK and the US. Translator died 1929: public domain in the UK (life+70, since 2000). US: first published 1925 (public domain); Loeb vol. II (Book VII) was revised and reprinted in 1931 and Perseus follows a later printing, so any 1931 revisions enter the US public domain on 1 Jan 2027 (low risk; see docs/research/licence-facts.md).
- Attribution
- Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VII, tr. R. D. Hicks (Loeb, 1925). Text: Perseus Digital Library (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Digital text
- Perseus Digital Library (opens in a new tab) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Perseus Digital Library TEI markup). Our extracted text is attributed to Perseus and our corpus files derived from it are shared under the same licence.