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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

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by Pamela Mensch


  On Goods (Hecaton of Rhodes), 348, 349, 356

  On Grief (Crantor), 192

  On Heraclitus (Ariston of Chios), 194, 437

  On Human Nature (Zeno of Citium), 344

  On Illustrious Men (Amphicrates of Athens), 110

  On Inquiry (Aenesidemus of Cnossus), 485

  On Justice (Antidorus the Epicurean), 256

  On Justice (Chrysippus), 357, 383

  On Kingship (Euclides of Megara), 114

  On Kingship (Euphantus of Olynthus), 114

  On Law (Heraclides Ponticus), 460

  On Legislators (Apollodorus of Athens), 29

  On Life (Epicurus), 531, 536

  On Lives (Dicaearchus of Messana), 135

  On Lives (Timotheus the Athenian), 136, 180, 212, 312

  On Longevity, (Phlegon of Tralles), 53

  On Love (Chrysippus), 358

  On Mathematics (Hermodorus of Syracuse), 5

  On Men of Exceptional Virtue (Antiphon of Athens), 395

  On Natural Philosophy (Apollophanes), 361

  On Nature (Alcidamas), 419

  On Nature (Boethus of Sidon), 364

  On Nature (Epicurus), 531

  On Nature (Parmenides), 418

  On Nature (Pythagoras of Samos), 397

  On Nature (Timocrates of Lampsacus), 495

  On Old Age (Demetrius of Phalerum), 67, 444

  On Opinions (Meleager of Gadara), 106

  On Painting (Duris), 20

  On Painting (Melanthius), 188

  On Painting (Theophanes), 111

  On Paradoxes (Hecaton of Rhodes), 355

  On Passions (Chrysippus), 351

  On Passions (Hecaton of Rhodes), 351

  On Passions (Zeno of Citium), 351

  On Pedagogy (Cleomenes), 293

  On Philosophers (Philodemus of Gadara), 493

  On Philosophers (Speusippus), 447

  On Philosophy (Anaxilaides), 134

  On Philosophy (Aristotle), xiii, 7

  On Philosophy (Seleucus of Alexandria), 175

  On Pleasure (Chrysippus), 349

  On Pleasure (Cleanthes of Assos), 344

  On Poetry (Aristotle), 86

  On Poets (Aristotle), 155, 419

  On Poets (Lobon of Argos), 54

  On Poets and Writers of the Same Name (Demetrius of Magnesia), 54, 213. See also Men of the Same Name

  On Power (Heraclides Ponticus), 46

  On Providence (Chrysippus), 361, 363

  On Pyrrho (Antigonus of Carystus), 467

  On Pythagoras (Hermippus of Smyrna), 399

  On Pythagoras and His Disciples (Aristoxenus), 56

  On Reason (Chrysippus), 334

  On Reason (Zeno of Citium), 328, 329

  On Rhetoric (Epicurus), 498

  On Sensations (Timon of Phlius), 484

  On Socrates and His Associates (Idomeneus of Lampsacus), 71

  On Speech and Meaning (Antipater of Tarsus), 335

  On Style (Posidonius of Apamea), 335

  On Substance (Antipater of Tyre), 365

  On Substance (Zeno of Citium), 359

  On the Art of Love (Zeno of Citium), 327

  On the Beautiful (Chrysippus), 348

  On the Cosmos (Antipater of Tyre), 361, 362, 364, 635

  On the Cosmos (Posidonius of Apamea), 362

  On the Cosmos (Zeno of Citium), 362

  On the Criterion (Posidonius of Apamea), 334

  On the End (Epicurus), 536

  On the Equinox (Thales), 13

  On the Goal (Epicurus), 494

  On the Gods (Protagoras of Abdera), 462

  On the Gods (Theodorus the Atheist), 108

  On the Honorable (Chrysippus), 356

  On the Inanimate (Heraclides Ponticus), 8

  On the Luxuriousness of the Ancients (Pseudo‐Aristippus), 46, 72, 88, 147, 189, 214, 231, 420n93, 569, 570, 636

  On the Magi (Hermippus of Smyrna), 7

  On the Means of Making a Living (Chrysippus), 383

  On the Natural Philosophers (Aristippus of Cyrene), 404

  On the Nature of Things (Lucretius), 549

  On the Philosophers (Damon of Cyrene), 21

  On the Philosophical Schools (Apollodorus of Athens), 30

  On the Philosophical Schools (Clitomachus of Carthage), 106

  On the Philosophical Schools (Hippobotus), 12, 105

  On the Philosophical Schools (Panaetius of Rhodes), 105

  On the Philosophical Schools (Theodorus), 95

  On the Philosophy of the Egyptians (Hecataeus of Abdera), 8

  On the Pythagoreans (Aristotle), 408

  On the Republic (Chrysippus), 327, 358, 383

  On the Sages (Hermippus of Smyrna), 22

  On the Seven Sages (Hermippus of Smyrna), 432

  On the Socratics (Phanias of Eresus), 263

  On the Solstice (Thales), 13

  On the Soul (Chrysippus), 332

  On the Soul (Plato). See Phaedo (Plato)

  On the Soul (Zeno of Citium), 367

  On the Suspension of Judgment (Hieronymus of Rhodes), 112

  On the Universe (Zeno of Citium), 360, 363, 366

  On Theocritus (Ambryon), 218

  On Theophrastus (Hermippus of Smyrna), 91

  On Things Not Worth Choosing for Their Own Sake (Chrysippus), 363

  On Two‐Sided Arguments (Zeuxis), 485, 648

  On Virtues (Chrysippus), 356

  On Virtues (Hecaton of Rhodes), 345, 356

  On Voice (Diogenes of Babylon), 334, 335

  On Void (Chrysippus), 361

  On Ways of Life (Chrysippus), 354, 357

  On Wealth and Poverty (Eratosthenes of Cyrene), 468

  On Zeno (Antigonus of Carystus), 162

  On Zeno (Apollonius of Tyre), 312, 315

  On Zeno’s Proper Use of Terms (Chrysippus), 354

  Onesicritus 294, 298–99

  Onetor, 115, 138, 388, 644

  Oracle at Delphi, 51, 42, 82, 398

  Orchomenus, 55

  Oresteia (Aeschylus), 158n125

  Orestes, 128n279, 167, 380n158, 466n116

  Orestes (Euripides), 379n154, 380n158, 466n116

  Oromasdes, 7

  Oropus, 129, 130

  Orpheus, 5n17, 6, 22, 262n11, 398, 558, 561–62

  Orphic mysteries, 262

  Osiris, 8

  Ostanas, 5

  Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Aenesidemus of Cnossus), 474

  paideia, 101

  Palamedes (Euripides), 85

  Pallas Athena. See Athena

  Pammetros ([Poems of] All Meters; Diogenes Laertius), 20, 32, 56n201, 208n124, 326, 426, 456, 562, 563–70

  Pamphila of Epidaurus, 14, 34, 550, 644 Commentaries, 37, 44, 48, 74, 230

  Reminiscences, 145, 152

  Pamphilus the Platonist, 498

  Panaetius of Rhodes, 95, 175, 329, 346, 356, 362, 365, 370, 391n178, 605, 644 On Contentment, 444

  On the Philosophical Schools, 105

  Panathenaea (Panathenaic Festival), 84n106, 158

  Panathenaic Festival. See Panathenaea

  Pancratium, 37

  Pan‐Ionian festival (Panionia), 22

  Paraebates of Cyrene, 126

  Parallel Lives (Plutarch), xiii, 180, 183

  Parallels (Myronianus of Amastris). See Chapters on Historical Parallels

  Parasite, The (Alexis), 147

  Paris, 17, 96, 289n105, 338n94

  Parmenides, 10, 51, 62, 112, 136, 155, 401, 415, 418, 445–47, 448, 454, 573, 576, 589, 590, 591, 610, 644 On Nature, 418

  Parmenides (Plato), 446, 448

  Parnassus, Mt., 15n65, 56n199

  Parthenon, 116n233, 338, 476n144

  Parthenopaeus (Dionysius the Turncoat), 256

  Pasiphon of Eretria, 94, 292

  Pausanias, 71n45, 423, 424, 420, 425, 442

  Pazatas, 5

  pederasty, 109, 188, 198, 202, 204, 287, 318, 320, 351, 370, 494, 563, 574, 647

  Peloponnese, 64, 423, 425

  Peloponnesian
War, 36, 71n46, 72n55, 72n57, 83n98, 134n2, 138n35, 249n127, 314n9

  Pelops, 17

  Penelope, 101, 577. See also Odyssey

  Perdiccas, 160, 280, 492

  Periander, 8, 16, 17, 32, 45–48, 52, 562n5, 564, 565, 571, 584, 636, 644 death of, 46

  Pericles, 67, 68, 120, 135, 381n162, 476, 565

  Pericles (Plutarch), 476

  Peripatetic school, 11, 209, 211–57, 356, 375 origin of name, 10, 212

  Peristratus of Ephesus, 93, 644

  Persaeus of Citium, 93, 130, 202, 315, 316, 327, 353, 369, 572, 605, 606, 644 Convivial Reminiscences, 312

  Ethical Discourses, 324

  list of works by, 327–28

  Persephone, 101n186, 109n203, 279n61, 382n171, 400n27, 420, 426n109, 442, 465, 640

  Persians, 4, 5, 62n13, 63n20, 100, 115n229, 130n293, 149n77, 215, 476, 573. See also Medes

  Phaedo, 78, 86, 93n156, 95, 100, 104, 112, 122, 268, 302n147, 574

  Phaedo (Plato), 74n63, 84, 95, 121, 151, 158

  Phaedon of Elis, 12

  Phaedrus, 147, 148

  Phaedrus (Plato), 145, 151

  Phaethon (Euripides), 66

  Phalerum, 5, 249

  Phanias, 329, 644 Lectures of Posidonius, 329

  Phanias of Eresus, 95, 230, 644 On the Socratics, 263

  Phanodicus, 17, 40, 644

  Phemonoe, 21

  Pherecydes, 8, 9, 10, 22, 55–57, 86, 205, 394, 564 death of, 56, 411

  Phidias, 116

  Philalethists, 10

  Philemon, 300, 644, 645 Philosophers, 324

  Philip II of Macedon, 91, 152, 182–83, 212, 217, 244, 280, 300

  Philip the Megarian, 115, 644

  Philip of Opus, 151, 154. See also Epinomis (Plato)

  Philippica (Theopompus of Chios), 7

  Philippus, 10

  Philiscus of Aegina, 292, 294, 296, 299, 644

  Philo of Athens, 468, 469, 644

  Philo the Dialectician, 319

  Philochorus, 85, 462, 645

  Philoctetes (Euripides), 213n9

  Philodemus of Gadara, xi, 292n113, 493, 502, 606, 645 On Philosophers, 493

  Philolaus of Croton, 122n250, 136, 138, 402, 414, 418, 429–31, 453, 590, 591, 645

  Philonides, 202, 316, 328

  philosopher, as a social type, xii

  Philosophers (Philemon), 324

  philosophy, 160 division of, 11, 226, 328, 504

  first use of term, 8, 398

  origins of, 4, 8–12, 561

  schools of, 10–12, 87n117, 104, 112, 209

  sects of, 12 See also specific schools (e.g., Peripatetic school)

  Philoxenus, 196

  Phlegon of Tralles, 645 On Longevity, 53

  Phocaea (city), 38

  Phocus of Samos, 13

  Phoenicia, 13, 312

  Phoenician Women (Euripides), 283

  Pholegandros, 24

  Phrynichus, 189, 645

  Phylarchus, 489, 645

  Physical Sciences (Chrysippus), 361

  Physics (Apollodorus Ephelus), 360, 363, 365

  Physics (Chrysippus), 360, 362, 365, 367, 368

  Physics (Theophrastus), 446

  physics, 11, 156, 308. See also natural philosophy

  physis, 69n39, 245, 635. See also nomos

  Pindar, 86, 160n134

  Piraeus, 82n98, 123, 197, 198, 260, 312, 431

  Pisistratus, 8, 25–33, 45, 52, 54, 57, 645

  Pittaceium, 37

  Pittacus, 8, 17, 37–40, 55, 86, 562n5, 571, 584, 645 death of, 39

  and laws, 37–38

  nicknames of, 39–40

  Platea, Battle of, 37n150

  Plato, ix, x, xiii, xv, 9, 12, 13, 16, 48, 52, 83, 87, 92, 94, 95, 96, 100, 101, 102, 111, 112, 122, 126, 134–75, 178, 181, 194, 220, 228, 230, 231, 261, 263, 270–72, 306, 358, 418, 427, 429, 430, 431, 432, 446, 454, 471, 496, 645, 646 Apology of Socrates, 73nn60–61, 78–79 n88, 82, 84n100, 86, 150

  Charmides, 77n77

  classification of works, 159–61

  Crito, 74n62, 80n91, 118n244

  death of, 152

  dialogues of, 159

  doctrines of, 162–75, 592–97

  epigrams of, 147–50

  Epinomis, 151

  ethics of, 595–96

  Euthydemus, 78, 88n121, 461

  Euthyphro, 77n73, 159, 160

  on good, 173–74

  on knowledge, 168

  Laws, 150, 151, 152, 159

  logic of, 596–97

  Lysis, 77n74, 151

  and memory, 141–42

  Meno, 82

  origin of nickname, 135

  Parmenides, 446, 448

  Phaedo, 74n63, 84, 95, 121, 151, 158

  Phaedrus, 145, 151

  Protagoras, 22, 38, 52, 461

  reception of, in the Middle Ages, 550–52

  Republic, 120n248, 135n14, 136n22, 150, 151, 159, 428

  rivalry of, with Xenophon, 150

  Rivals in Love, 135, 452

  Seventh Letter, 142n48, 144nn51–54, 145n55, 148n71

  and slavery, 104, 142–43, 152

  Sophist, 156, 159, 160, 448

  students of, 154

  Symposium, 76, 135n14, 148n74, 150

  Theaetetus, 70, 415n72, 461

  Timaeus, 405n49, 431

  and truth, 152

  Plato’s Funeral Feast (Speusippus), 134

  Pleiad, the, 488n171

  Plutarch of Chaeronea, xiii, 52n187, 487n169, 550, 551, 584, 585, 593, 594, 595, 601, 610n3, 620, 645 Moralia, 84n104, 428

  Parallel Lives, xiii, 180, 183

  Pericles, 476

  [Poems of] All Meters (Diogenes Laertius). See Pammetros

  Polemo. See Polemon

  Polemon (Polemo), 10, 111, 155, 187–90, 191, 253, 312, 320, 323, 369, 563, 566, 570, 575, 588, 608, 609, 635, 645 death of, 190

  Pollux, 36

  Polybius, 167, 551

  Polycrates, 61, 82, 394, 396, 571

  Polycritus of Mende, 574, 645 On Dionysius, 94

  Polyeuctus, 82, 270, 645

  Polygnotus, 314

  Polynices, 202n96

  Pompeii, xi

  Pompeion, 84, 270

  Pordalus (Diogenes the Cynic), 269

  Porphyry, 411n61

  Poseidon, xiii, 134, 333n79, 364

  Posidippus of Cassandreia, 645 Men Transported, 324

  Posidonius of Apamea, 328, 329, 336, 349, 356–57, 363–64, 391n178, 468, 493, 593, 597, 605, 613, 636, 644, 645 Account of Nature, 359

  Discourse on Nature, 361, 363, 365, 366, 605

  Exhortations, 345, 357

  Meteorology, 365

  On Celestial Phenomena, 360, 363

  On Divination, 365

  On Duties, 355, 357

  On Ethics, 345

  On Fate, 364

  On Goals, 344

  On Gods, 361, 364

  On Style, 335

  On the Cosmos, 362

  On the Criterion, 334

  Posterior Analytics (Aristotle), 227

  Potamon of Alexandria, 12, 645 Elementary Teaching, 12 See also Eclectic school

  Pot‐Feast (Chytri festival), 158

  Potidaea, siege of, 72

  Praxiphanes, 138, 175, 498, 645

  Precepts (Antisthenes of Athens), 260

  preconception, 334, 505, 506–7, 518, 542, 543

  Pre‐Socratics, 551, 588–92

  Priam, 338, 428n116

  Priene, 23, 40–43

  principles, 7, 12, 60, 62, 64, 140, 161, 162, 165–66, 358–60, 367, 398, 406, 428, 450, 457, 469, 482, 504, 507, 522, 589, 592–95, 617, 621

  Prior Analytics (Aristotle), 227

  Problems (Epicurus), 531

  Procles, 45, 48

  Prodicus of Ceos, 461

  Protagoras (Plato), 22, 38, 52, 461

  Protagoras of Abdera, 454, 460–63, 496, 563, 575, 576, 589, 590, 610, 637, 645–46 Disputations, 151, 159

  list of works by, 462

  On the Gods, 462r />
  Proteus (Aeschylus), 158n125

  Proverbs (Chrysippus), 312

  Proxenus, 88, 219

  Prytaneum, 84

  Pseudo‐Aristippus, 420, 569, 570, 636, 646 On the Luxuriousness of the Ancients, 46, 72, 88, 147, 189, 214, 231, 420n93, 569, 570, 636

  Ptolemy I Soter, 110, 114, 116, 129, 230, 250–51, 322

  Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 242, 251, 322, 486

  Ptolemy IV Philopater, 378, 382

  Purifications (Empedocles of Agrigentum), 418, 422

  Pygmy, 333

  Pylades (brother of Arcesilaus), 193, 197, 199

  Pylades (friend of Orestes), 128, 167

  Pyrrho, xii, xv, 10, 194, 466–85, 486

  Pyrrhonian Discourses (Aenesidemus of Cnossus), 484–85, 489

  Pyrrhonian school, 12

  Pyrrhonians, 12, 470–89, 583, 587, 610–14, 620

  Pyrrhus, 327, 396

  Pythagoras of Samos, xv, 14, 55, 56, 62–63, 138, 394–416, 418, 419, 427, 429, 444, 445n31, 447, 453, 492n2, 497, 547, 548, 559, 560, 567, 568, 571, 573, 575, 576, 582, 588–92, 604, 610, 635, 643, 646 death of, xi, 8–9, 10, 86, 411, 436

  On Nature, 397

  Pythagorean Memoir, 405, 410

  relation of, to skepticism, 10

  Sacred Poem, The, 398 See also Italian school; Pythagoreon school

  Pythagoras’s Disciples (Aristophon), 640

  Pythagorean Memoir (Pythagoras of Samos), 405, 410

  Pythagorean school, 254, 394–433, 445n30

  Pythian priestess. See Oracle at Delphi

  Pythocles, 494, 531, 560, 600 Epicurus’ letter to, 494, 504, 522–31, 615, 617

  Python, 154, 468

  Python (Timon of Phlius), 467, 468n126, 473, 484

  Raphael, 554–61

  Refutations of Diocles (Sotion of Alexandria), 493

  Reminiscences (Diodorus), 178

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

  Reminiscences (Pamphila of Epidaurus), 145, 152

  Reply to Chrysippus, A (Artemidorus the Dialectician), 461

  Republic (Plato), 120n248, 135n14, 136n22, 150, 151, 159, 428

  Republic (Zeno of Citium), 313, 326–27, 354, 357, 358

  rhetoric, 8n33, 70, 71, 94, 158, 168, 171–72, 202, 227, 252, 260, 329–30, 419, 448, 452n67, 461, 564, 576, 592

  Rivals in Love (Plato), 135, 452

  Romans, 111, 208n125, 244, 327n61, 401, 425, 476, 552, 570, 607, 645

  Romm, James, 567–70

  Rowland, Ingrid D., 554–61

  Rules of Pedagogy (Aristoxenus), 402

  Sabinus, 155, 646

  Sacred Poem, The (Pythagoras of Samos), 398

 

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