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I am very sorry that we have not a dozen Laertiuses, and also that he was not more expansive or more thoroughly informed. For I am equally eager to know the fortunes and lives of these great teachers of the world, no less carefully than their doctrines and ideas.—Montaigne, Book II, Essay X: Of Books

I for one prefer reading Diogenes Laertius, in [him] there lives at least the spirit of the ancient philosophers . . . The only critique of a philosophy that is possible and that proves anything, namely trying to see whether one can live in accordance with it, has never been taught at universities; all that has ever been taught is a critique of words by means of other words. —Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator
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Equally uncertain is the reason for the text's survival: if Diogenes Laertius had readers in his own lifetime, we don't know who they were. The manuscript may well have been published only posthumously, prepared by a scribe forced to work with unfinished material. No one knows how many copies were initially made. Unlike the corpus of Plato, which was carefully preserved by his school, or the treatises of Aristotle, which came to be widely read, studied, and copied in antiquity, it's as if the manu

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Burying A Sage: The Heroon Of Thales In The Agora Of Miletos

1The ancient Greek city of Miletos on the western coast of Asia Minor was famous for her philosophers. The first and most famous of them was Thales, who – according to the common tradition starting in the 6^th century BC – even won the Panhellenic contest of the Seven Sages. His grave is only known from literary sources, describing its location, appearance and inscriptions (§§ IV, VII). Nevertheless, recent research has revealed new data on the geoarchaeology and townplanning of Miletos that provokes a first attempt to locate and reconstruct the grave. The myth goes that Thales, who died in the mid 6^th century BC, himself choose the place. Later on, it happened that his grave became located in the agora (Plutarch, Solon 12). In ancient times, this prominent place was reserved for the heros ktistes, the heroic founder of a city, as Pindar (Pythian 5.93) has pointed it out for Battos in Kyrene. It is argued that Thales was indeed venerated as a kind of secondary founder in the sense that he achieved the status of a ‘cultural hero’, a concept long-established in the Indo-European tradition. His heroon is expected to be found somewhere in the area of the so-called North Market, the political agora of M

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A History a mixture of Sparta 950-192 B.C. 009087840X, 9780090878406

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W. G. Forrest Fellowof WadhamCollege,Oxford,and University Lecturerin AncientHistory

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The profusion The appearance of rendering Dorians Interpretation conquest invite Laconia Metropolis and interpretation outside sphere ExcursusI-The Lykourgan reforms Picture revolution Messenia and Arkadia Sparta streak the tyrants The alien of Kleomenes The Iranian Wars become calm after Depiction First Peninsula War highest after Representation Peloponnesian Hostilities I Description Peloponnesian WTar I I Sparta's commonwealth ExcursusI I-The population City in get the better of The in no time at all revolution Conclusion

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