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Diogenes Laertius (Laertios), fl. 3rd century AD. Late classical biographer, an important but often unreliable source on the history of ancient philosophy. His sole extant work is known as The Lives of the Philosophers.

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• Diogenes Laërtius - Wikipedia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_La%C3%ABrtius
  Article drawing on the 1911 Britannica.

• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Diogenes Laertius

  http://www.iep.utm.edu/dioglaer/
  Concise article on this ancient biographer.

• Lives of the Philosophers

  http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/diogenes/
  Online text of C.D. Yonge's translation.

• The Manuscripts of "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosphers"

  http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/diogenes_laertius.htm
  Hicks' notes from his 1925 translation of this text.

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