It is richly footnoted and delightfully illustrated in full colour throughout (nearly 200 figures). Hicks’ 1925 Loeb version) is based on the text established from the 40 surviving Greek MSS (and a 15th C Latin version) by Tiziano Dorandi (Cambridge, 2013, £184). Mensch’s accurate and very readable translation (she generously acknowledges R.D. Each branch developed different ‘schools’-Cynics, Sceptics, Stoics, etc. Physics is the part concerned with the world and its contents ethics is concerned with life and the matters that affect us dialectic is the part that cultivates the processes of reasoning employed by both’. All the big names are here-Thales, Pythagoras, Anaxagoras, Heraclitus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus and so on-all exemplifying the three branches of ancient philosophy as Diogenes Laertius (henceforth DL) explains it: ‘ … physics, ethics and dialectic. Snap it up, therefore, before Trump gets to hear of it.Ī luxury edition, then, at a bargain price, of Diogenes Laertius’ ten-book Lives of 82 philosophers, from Thales (7th C BC) to Sextus Empiricus (3rd C AD). ![]() This breeze-block of a book, on gloss paper and weighing in at 2kg (over 4lb in old money), would probably have cost up to ten times as much if published by OUP UK.
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