The lives and opinions of eminent philosophers / by Diogenes Laertius ; literally translated by C.D. Yonge.

Abstract

[...] Diogenes Laertius divides the philosophy of the Greeks into the Ionic, beginning with Anaximander, and ending with Theophrastus (in which class, he includes the Socratic philosophy and all its various ramifications) ; and the Italian, beginning with Pythagoras, and ending with Epicurus, in the Sceptics. From the minute consideration which he devotes to Epicurus and his system, it has been supposed that he himself belongs to that school. [...