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Author Dorandi, Tiziano

Title Diogenes Laertius : Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (961 pages)
Series Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
Cambridge classical texts and commentaries.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page ; Copyright; Dedication ; Contents ; Preface ; Introduction ; I Manuscripts ; (i) Continuous manuscripts; (ii) The 'excerpta Vaticana' and the 'excerptum Vindobonense'; (iii) The manuscripts of the 'Life of Plato' (Book 3); II Testimonia; (i) The Greek Anthology and the Suda; (ii) Arsenius and ps.-Eudocia; (iii) Latin translations; III Editions of the 'Lives' from the 'Frobeniana' to Marcovich; IV History of the text; (i) From Usener to Knoepfler; (ii) New evidence for the history of the text
(Ii. 1) The continuous manuscripts B, P and F (]) and the descendants of P(ii. 2) The oldest 'vulgate' tradition (Ü); (ii. 3) The 'recentiores'; (ii. 4) The 'excerpta Vaticana' (Z); (ii. 5) The other Byzantine excerpts; (ii. 6) The manuscripts of the 'Life of Plato'; (ii. 7) The geographical unity of the transmission; (ii. 8) Was ] written in uncial?; (ii. 9) [, and beyond [; V Stemma; VI Principles and arrangement of this edition; (i) Preliminaries; (i.1) The parallel tradition; (i.2) Quotations; (i.3) Diogenes Laertius' 'Epicurea'; (i.4) Arrangement of the text; (i.5) Titles of the biographies
(I.6) Morphology(ii) Levels of apparatus; (iii) Subsidium interpretationis; (iv) Appendices; (v) Index nominum; Text and Critical Apparatus; Sigla; Index Locupletior; Liber I; Liber II; Liber III; Liber IV; Liber V; Liber VI; Liber VII; Liber VIII; Liber IX; Liber X; Subsidium Interpretationis; Appendices ; I Metres of Diogenes Laertius' poems (with the exception of elegiac distichs); II Some addenda to Laertiana; III Additamentum; Abbreviations and Bibliography; I Select abbreviations; II Select bibliography; (i) Editions of Diogenes Laertius; (ii) Other works; Index Nominum
Summary This edition presents a radically improved text of Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers. The text is accompanied by a full critical apparatus on three levels. A lengthy introduction lists all the manuscripts of the Lives and discusses its transmission in late antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. There is also an index of personal names, a bibliography and notes covering several features of the text and its interpretation. Professor Dorandi has used the Nachlaß of Peter Von der Mühll, for the first time in its entirety, to verify and consolidate material that he had previously gathered. This is by far the most detailed and elaborate edition which Diogenes' Lives - a unique work which has had a profound influence on European literature and philosophy - has ever received
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Subject Philosophers, Ancient -- Biography
Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophers, Ancient
Philosophy, Ancient
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781107345089
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9780521886819
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