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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

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by Pamela Mensch


  Convivial Reminiscences (Persaeus of Citium), 312

  Cooper, John, xiv

  Corcyra, 46

  Corinth, 22, 45, 48, 91, 98, 110, 138, 150, 295, 302 Isthmus of, 48n174, 112, 260, 295

  Cos, 17 Battle of, 197

  cosmos, 6n21, 360–64, 415, 432, 548–49, 594–95

  Craneum, 278, 295

  Crantor, 10, 188, 190, 191–92, 193 On Grief, 192

  Crates (academic), 10, 115, 116, 117, 122, 125, 188, 190–91, 194, 204, 638

  Crates of Thebes, 266, 298, 299–304, 312, 313, 314, 318, 322, 326, 563, 570, 574, 638 Letters, 306

  Cratinus, 43, 53, 369n122, 638

  Cratinus the Younger, 638 Archilochoi, 8

  Chirons, 32

  False Changeling, The, 146

  Tarantines, 410

  Woman Who Followed Pythagoras, The, 410

  Cratylus, 136

  Cratylus (Plato), 166n168, 596

  Crete, 22, 51, 52, 53, 293, 395

  Crinis, 336, 339, 341 Art of Dialectic, 339

  criterion, 227, 330, 332, 334, 446, 478–81, 485, 535, 540, 612

  Critias, xiii, 73, 134, 573

  Critical Writings (Dionysius of Halicarnassus), 20

  Crito, 71, 78, 80n91, 93, 112, 118–19, 151 list of works by, 119

  Crito (Plato), 74n62, 80n91, 118n244

  Croesus, 14, 17, 20, 22, 26, 33, 37–38, 40, 46, 51, 571

  Crossing of Xerxes (Empedocles of Agrigentum), 419

  Croton, 638 Diver, The, 440

  Croton (city), 63, 396, 404, 411, 429, 571, 573

  Ctesibius, 53, 197

  Cyclops, 333

  Cylon, 53, 86, 411, 415

  Cynic school, 11, 87, 204, 260–309, 319, 354, 383n175–76, 531 founding of, 12, 260

  origin of name, 10, 96n172

  Cynicism, 597–603. See also Cynic school

  Cynosarges, 260–61 n7, 264, 368

  Cyprus, 26, 32, 124, 125n266, 312, 424, 488, 563, 572

  Cypselus, 21, 45, 46

  Cypris. See Aphrodite

  Cyrenaic school, 11, 12, 87n117, 93n155, 102, 104–6, 191n46, 256, 272, 322n38, 371, 536, 537, 568–69, 572, 583, 587, 616, 627, 636 alternate names of, 104

  founding of, 12

  origin of name, 10

  Cyrene, 95, 136, 207

  Cyrus, 14, 88, 91, 150, 299

  Cythera (island), 35

  Daimachus the Platonist, 17, 638

  daimōn, 10n42, 78, 79, 95, 365, 404n47, 596

  Damasius, 13

  Damon of Cyrene, 21, 638 On the Philosophers, 21

  Danaus, 43, 202n99

  Dante, 555, 602

  Dardanelles (Hellespont), 5n15, 96

  Dardanus, 90, 391n178

  Darius, 7n30, 28n109, 63n20, 149n78, 441, 573

  De Natura Animalium (Aelian), 474n141

  definition, 336

  Delians, 86, 134

  Delium, Battle of, 72

  Delphi, 15, 22, 73, 88, 128, 270, 287. See also Oracle at Delphi

  Demaratus, 35

  Demeter, 5n19, 6n24, 109n203, 214, 216n26, 219, 279, 291, 364, 382n171, 400n27, 402, 420n94, 455n78, 495n26, 564, 567, 570, 640

  Demetrias, 198

  Demetrius of Byzantium, 71–72, 638

  Demetrius of Magnesia, 90, 91, 92, 298, 301, 498, 572, 606, 608, 609, 620, 638 Men of the Same Name (aka On Poets and Writers of the Same Name), 20, 39, 54, 213, 249, 255, 296, 326, 372, 382, 429, 431, 441, 449, 452, 608, 638

  Demetrius of Phalerum, 86, 110, 186, 232, 249–53, 302, 452, 463, 572, 575, 584, 638 Apology of Socrates, 441, 452, 463

  List of Archons, 13, 64

  list of works by, 251–52

  On Old Age, 67, 444

  Demetrius Poliorcetes, 116, 129, 130, 250, 251

  Demetrius of Troezen, 639 Against the Sophists, 424

  Demochares, 198, 318

  Democritus of Abdera, 10, 13, 14, 68, 145, 447, 451–60, 461, 462, 464, 468, 470, 471, 485, 492, 494, 496, 498, 556, 567, 574, 575, 576, 584, 589, 590, 591, 610, 613–15, 636, 639, 642, 643 death of, 454, 455

  Great Cosmology, 453, 454

  Lesser Cosmology, 454

  list of works by, 457–60

  Demodicus of Leros, 41, 639

  Demosthenes, 95, 113, 155, 198n85, 217, 275–76, 636, 639, 640, 645

  Dervéni (village), 6

  Dervéni papyrus, 6n25, 639

  detachment, 204, 613

  Dexidemides (Amphis), 146

  Diagoras of Melos, 286, 639

  dialectic, 11, 78n82, 113, 126, 145, 155–56, 158, 168, 196, 227, 255, 323, 329–34, 336, 368, 379, 419, 448, 467, 505, 576, 596, 608, 611, 612, 648

  Dialectical Definitions (Chrysippus), 338

  Dialectical school, 11–12, 319n28, 323, 496 founding of, 12

  dialectician, meaning of, 11

  Dialectics (Chrysippus), 339

  Dialogue of the Dogs (Eudoxus of Cnidus), 432

  dialogue, 155

  Dicaearchus of Messana, 21, 135, 151, 155, 411, 571, 639 On Lives, 135

  Didyma, 15, 18, 36n141, 396n15

  Didymon, 283, 291

  Didymus, 639 Table Talk, 249

  Diels, Hermann, 588, 589, 592, 621

  Dieuchidas of Megara, 639 Megarian History, 29

  Dillon, John, 592–97

  Dinarchus, 90, 639

  Dinon of Colophon, 7, 639 History of Persia, 7, 460

  Diocles of Magnesia, 244, 264, 265, 269, 276, 300, 302, 306, 309, 369, 371, 379, 380, 466, 468, 497, 498, 553, 620, 621, 639 Compendium of the Philosophers, 332

  Lives of the Philosophers, 90

  Diodorus (Diodorus Cronus), 114, 194n68, 319, 323, 639 Reminiscences, 178

  Diodorus of Aspendus, 265

  Diodorus of Ephesus, 424, 639

  Diodotus, 441, 442, 639

  Diogenes of Apollonia, 463–64, 590, 591, 610, 639

  Diogenes of Babylon, 328, 334, 344, 391n178, 571, 639 Art of Dialectics, 339

  On Voice, 334, 335

  Diogenes the Cynic (Diogenes of Sinope), xv, 10, 96, 100, 110, 115, 179, 220, 262, 266, 269–97, 298, 325, 345, 358, 639 and Alexander the Great, 278, 280, 281, 286n92–93, 287, 288, 291, 303

  death of, 295–96

  list of works by, 296

  and masturbating, xii, 281–82

  and Plato, 279, 285

  Thyestes, 292

  Diogenes Laertius: ancient references to, xi

  birthdate, x

  characterization of philosophy, xiv–xv

  epitaphs, of 42, 154

  and intellectual history, ix

  modern reception of, vii, xi, xvii

  verses of, 36, 47, 69, 86, 92, 114, 118, 130, 179, 186, 190, 200, 208, 216, 232, 244, 246, 251, 256, 268, 295, 306, 326, 382, 433, 437, 449, 456, 463, 464, 499, 575, 561–67 See also Lives of the Eminent Philosophers; Pammetros

  Diogenes of Ptolemais, 329, 639

  Diogenes of Sinope. See Diogenes the Cynic

  Diogenes of Tarsus, 502, 639 Epitome of Epicurus’ Ethical Doctrines, 531

  Selected Writings, 532, 536, 537

  Dion (Timocrates of Lampsacus), 312

  Dion of Syracuse, 39, 94, 135, 138, 142–44, 145, 147, 148, 154, 160, 181, 430

  Dionysia (aka City Dionysia; Festival of Dionysus), 135n12, 158, 271

  Dionysius (Stoic; aka Dionysius the Turncoat or Dionysius of Heraclea), 280, 322, 328, 371–72, 568, 569, 639 list of works by, 371–72

  Parthenopaeus, 256

  Dionysius of Chalcedon, 108, 112, 639

  Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 20, 415, 493, 639–40 Critical Writings, 20

  Dionysius I of Syracuse, 138, 142, 144, 145, 151, 160, 431

  Dionysius II of Syracuse, 94–99, 101, 102, 138, 144, 146n65, 178, 184, 271, 272, 283, 286, 431, 427

  Dionysodorus, 84, 190, 640

  Dionysus (deity), 6n24, 6n26, 110, 375

  Dioscurides, 32, 241, 488, 640 Memoirs, 32

  Diotimus the Stoic, 493, 640

  Discourse on Nature (Posidonius of Apamea)
, 361, 363, 365, 366, 605

  Discourses (Apollodorus of Athens), 135

  Discourses (Athenodorus the Stoic), 230, 455

  Disputations (Protagoras of Abdera), 151, 159

  Diver, The (Croton), 440

  dogmatism, 479, 484 definition of, 10, 156

  Dorandi, Tiziano, xvii, 577–88

  doxography, xix

  Draco, 28, 39

  drinking party, 34, 50n181, 76, 100, 114, 123, 128, 130, 232, 262, 275, 286, 305, 318, 322, 323, 432, 464

  Druids, 4, 6

  drunkenness, 37, 45, 50, 51, 123, 125, 152, 187, 200, 206, 289, 320, 356, 398, 403, 531, 638, 645

  Duris, 13, 37, 40, 43, 56, 71, 640 On Painting, 20

  Seasons, 56

  duty, 323, 350–53, 374

  Ecce Homo (Nietzsche), 599

  Eclectic school, 12

  Education of Cyrus (Xenophon of Erchia), 150, 299

  Egypt, 4, 7, 14–15, 22, 26, 43, 110n206, 116, 136, 137, 394, 431–33, 452

  Ekklesia. See Assembly

  Eleatic school, 62n10, 136n23, 155n115, 418, 445, 644

  Elementary Teaching (Potamon of Alexandria), 12

  Elements of Ethics (Eudromus), 328

  elements, 7, 60, 64n28, 145, 162, 163–65, 175, 228, 335, 348, 359–60, 406, 426, 431, 438, 444, 446, 450, 464, 479, 508–9, 512, 522, 594–95

  Elenctics: origin of name, 11

  Eleusinian mysteries, 5n19, 6n24, 109–10, 109n203, 110, 214, 279, 382, 495

  Eleusis, 640 On Achilles, 16

  Eleusis (town), 214n13, 215, 640. See also Eleusinian mysteries

  Elian school, 10–11, 87n117, 90, 112, 415 founding of, 12

  eminence (significance of), xiii

  Empedocles of Agrigentum, xv, 413, 416–27, 444, 446, 448, 471, 551, 559, 565, 567, 568, 573, 576, 590, 591, 592, 640 Crossing of Xerxes, 419

  death of, 424–26

  doctrines of, 426–27

  Hymn to Apollo, 419

  Purifications, 418, 422

  Encomium on Plato (Clearchus of Soli), 134

  entelechy, 228

  Epaminondas, 90, 279, 397

  Ephesus, 55

  Ephetics. See Pyrrhonians

  ephor, 34, 36n142

  Ephorus of Cyme, 22, 46, 47, 90, 114, 640

  Epicharmus of Cos, 138–41, 142, 398, 427, 590, 634, 640

  Epictetus, 494, 560, 609, 640

  Epicurean school, 11, 199 founding of, 12

  origin of name, 11

  Epicurus, ix, xiv, 9, 10, 15, 105, 159, 314, 316, 380, 416, 462, 467, 470, 492–543, 614–19, 640 Chief Maxims, 504, 505, 538–43

  death of, 499

  doctrines of, 504–7

  letters of, xvii, 504;

  to Herodotus, 507–22;

  to Menoeceus, 532–36;

  to Pythocles 522–31

  lists of works by 503–4

  On Choice and Avoidance, 536, 537

  On Life, 531, 536

  On Nature, 531

  On Rhetoric, 498

  On the End, 536

  On the Goal, 494

  on pleasure, 536–43

  Problems, 531

  on sensation, 505–6

  Short Epitome, 536

  Symposium, 531

  will of, 499–500

  Epimenides of Crete, 8, 22, 30n119, 32, 52–55, 395, 444, 640, 641

  Epinomis (Plato), 151

  Epitome of Epicurus’ Ethical Doctrines (Diogenes of Tarsus), 531

  Epitome of Natural Philosophy (Manetho), 8

  Epitome of Sotion (Heraclides Lembus), 398, 492

  Epitome of the Lives of Satyrus (Heraclides Lembus), 411, 418, 449

  Epitomes (Theophrastus), 445

  epodes, 31

  Erasistratus, 241, 244, 382

  Eratosthenes of Cyrene, 56, 204, 301, 415, 468, 640 Against Baton, 432

  On Ancient Comedy, 314

  On Wealth and Poverty, 468

  Victors at the Olympic Games, 416

  Eretrian school, 11, 104, 112, 122, 129–30, 149, 194 founding of, 12, 93n156, 302n147

  origin of name, 10 See also Menedemus of Eretria

  eristic(s), 78, 193, 227, 267n25, 566, 611

  Eristic school, 112

  Erytus, 136

  Eteia, 51

  Ethical Discourses (Persaeus of Citium), 324

  Ethical Researches (Chrysippus), 353

  ethics, 11, 69, 71, 86, 207, 309, 329, 343–58, 532–36 schools of, 11 See also philosophy: division of

  Ethics (Achaïcus), 306

  Ethics (Apollodorus Ephelus), 349, 353, 354, 357

  Euanthes of Miletus, 16, 640

  Eubulides of Miletus, 84, 113–14, 122n251, 269, 383, 640 On Diogenes, 269

  Eubulus, 93, 217, 273, 489, 640 Sale of Diogenes, 273

  Euclides of Megara, 12, 78, 95, 112–15, 136, 153, 270, 301

  Eudaemonists, 10

  Eudemian Ethics (Aristotle), 222

  Eudemus of Rhodes, 7, 640

  Eudoxus of Cnidus, 16, 431–33, 476, 573, 640–41 Dialogue of the Dogs, 432

  Eudoxus of Cyzicus, 641 Map of the Earth, 432

  Octaeteris, 431

  Eudromus, 329, 641 Elements of Ethics, 328

  Eumelus, 641 Histories, 215

  Eumenes, 197, 246

  Eumolpidae, 5

  Eumolpus, 5

  Euphantus of Olynthus, 572, 641 Histories, 129

  On Kingship, 114

  Euphorbus the Phrygian, 14, 396, 413

  Euphorion of Chalcis, 151, 463, 641

  Eupolis, 137, 641 Flatterers, 460

  Shirkers, 137

  Euripides, xii, 29, 65, 66, 70, 72, 85, 86, 136, 188, 192, 300n137, 322, 440, 462, 463n99, 470, 471, 634, 641, 646 Andromeda, 193

  Auge, 79

  Autolycus, 29

  Baccahe, 100, 305

  Hippolytus, 203

  Iphigenia in Tauris, 136n28

  Ixion, 440, 463

  Licymnius, 160

  Medea, xii–xiii, 126, 276n54, 380

  Orestes, 379n154, 380n158, 466n116

  Palamedes, 85

  Philoctetes, 213n9

  Phoenician Women, 283

  Suppliant Maidens, 322n36

  Euryclides, 109. See also Eleusinian mysteries

  Eurylochus of Casandrea, 123, 469, 498

  Euthydemus, 34

  Euthydemus (Plato), 78, 88n121, 461

  Euthyphro (father of Heraclides Pontus), 77, 254, 256, 641

  Euthyphro (son of Heraclides Pontus), 50, 641

  Euthyphro (Plato), 77n73, 159, 160

  Examyas, 13

  Exhortations (Posidonius of Apamea), 345, 357

  False Changeling, The (Cratinus the Younger), 146

  Fates, 558. See also Graces

  Favorinus, 83, 151, 232, 449, 478, 572, 620, 641 Miscellaneous History, 60, 67, 71, 82, 135, 143, 145, 159, 205, 207, 215, 216, 249, 272, 293, 401, 402, 415, 429, 447, 451, 461

  Reminiscences, 39, 73, 82, 144, 145, 152, 155, 160, 181, 222, 249, 301, 401, 418, 422, 425, 433, 445, 447

  Festival of Dionysus. See Dionysia

  festivals, 126n273, 135n12, 146n64, 158. See also specific festivals (e.g., Lenaea)

  Festivities (Timocrates of Lampsacus), 494

  Ficino, Marsilo, 550, 557, 558

  Flatterers (Eupolis), 460

  forms, theory of, 118, 140–41, 158, 161, 285

  Foucault, Michel, 598, 599

  Four Hundred, the, 462

  friendship, 106, 108, 109, 167, 227, 335, 357–58, 399, 408, 532, 541, 542, 603, 640

  Funeral Feast of Arcesilaus (Timon of Phlius), 488

  Furies, 408, 466n116

  Galatians, 4

  Garland, The (Justus of Tiberias), 83

  Gassendi, Pierre, 552–53

  geometry, 8, 14, 79, 168, 184, 191, 194, 204, 206, 255, 293, 400–401, 428, 431, 452, 560, 568, 577, 601

  Glaucon, 77, 120–21, 135 list of works by, 120–21

  Glaucus of Rhegium, 417, 453, 641

  gnomon, 60, 576


  Gobryas, 5

  Gorgias of Leontini, 88, 94, 260, 419

  Goulet‐Cazé, Marie‐Odile, 598, 599n18, 601

  Graces, 71, 178, 181, 249, 558

  Grafton, Anthony, 546–54

  Great Cosmology (Democritus of Abdera), 453, 454

  Great Heracles (Antisthenes of Athens), 260

  Groom, The (Menander), 298

  Gutzwiller, Kathryn, 561–67

  Gymnosophists, 4n4, 452n64, 466n120, 613. See also Naked Sages

  Hades, 7, 42, 101, 202, 262, 308, 404, 409, 411, 426

  Hadot, Pierre: Inner Citadel, The, ix

  happiness, 172–73, 264, 323, 356, 383

  Harmodius, 29, 283, 449n51, 573. See also Aristogeiton

  Hated Man, The (Menander), 358n106

  Hecademus, 137–38. See also Academy: origin of name

  Hecataeus of Abdera, 7, 8, 470, 560, 641 On the Philosophy of the Egyptians, 8

  Hecataeus of Miletus, 436, 641

  Hecaton of Rhodes, 312, 345, 348, 391n178, 606, 609, 641 Anecdotes, 262, 275, 304, 323, 374

  On Goals, 344, 349

  On Goods, 348, 349, 356

  On Paradoxes, 355

  On Passions, 351

  On Virtues, 345, 356

  Hector, 214n19, 284–85 n86, 288, 338n94

  Hegel, G. W. F., 588, 590–91, 599–600, 641

  Hegesiac school, 106–8

  Hegesias, 104, 126n276, 206, 241, 282, 299, 583

  Helen, 17

  Heliaea, 33

  Hellenica (Xenophon of Erchia), 90n138

  Hellespont. See Dardanelles

  Hephaestus, 4, 17, 18, 136, 302n146, 304, 364

  Hera, 96n174, 253, 364, 383, 426 temple of, 46

  Heracles, 43, 55, 292, 324, 374, 375

  Heracles (Antisthenes of Athens), 309

  Heraclidae, 45

  Heraclides Lembus, 48, 85, 115, 118, 126, 128, 130, 251, 257, 413, 419, 423, 425, 571, 641 Epitome of Sotion, 398, 492

  Epitome of the Lives of Satyrus, 411, 418, 449

  Lembeuticus, 257

  Successions, 257

  Heraclides Ponticus, 14, 51, 254–57, 371, 396, 441, 566, 572, 593, 641 list of works by, 254–55

 

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