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Diogenes Laertius wrote these accounts in the 3rd century, telling how the Greek philosophers lived and died, with subjects including Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. Friedrich Nietzsche said he preferred reading Diogenes Laertius.
Ryan Holiday included it in a list of 13 moral biographies, saying its sketches are all quite good whatever their length.
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Ryan Holiday (Founder/Brass Check)
Ironically, Diogenes’ most famous biography in this collection is of the other Diogenes—Diogenes the Cynic. Other excellent and illustrative sketches include Zeno, Ariston, Cleanthes and Chrysippus the Stoic. Heraclitus is another great biography. All of these vary in length. Zeno is over a 150 pages, Herillus (not to be confused with Heraclitus) is 2 pages. But regardless of length, they are all quite good. My favorite little quirk of the book is Diogenes’ weird poem that he writes about each philosopher and of course the credulity with which he reports on their unusual deaths.
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