Vies et doctrines des philosophes illustres
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- anglais
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- Œuvre complète
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- Écrite par l'auteur
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- Texte propre
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- ~190 000 mots · 926 passages
Citer cette œuvre
- APADiogène Laërce. (n.d.). Vies et doctrines des philosophes illustres. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/diogenes-laertius/the-lives-and-opinions-of-eminent-philosophers
- MLADiogène Laërce. "Vies et doctrines des philosophes illustres." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/diogenes-laertius/the-lives-and-opinions-of-eminent-philosophers.
- ChicagoDiogène Laërce. Vies et doctrines des philosophes illustres. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/diogenes-laertius/the-lives-and-opinions-of-eminent-philosophers.
De quoi il s'agit
Les vies, doctrines et anecdotes des philosophes grecs, de Thalès à Épicure, avec testaments, lettres et listes d'ouvrages.
Contexte et histoire
Diogène Laërce écrivait vers le IIIe siècle et n'était pas philosophe : c'était un compilateur, et peu critique. Il mêle le fait vérifiable au bon mot et à la rumeur sans le signaler. Il n'en est pas moins irremplaçable, pour une raison gênante : de bien des philosophes antiques il est la SEULE source qui nous soit parvenue. Les trois lettres d'Épicure et les Maximes capitales n'existent que parce qu'il les a copiées ici. Il faut donc le lire en sachant qu'on ne peut souvent le confronter à rien.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le corpus.
In that among the Persians there existed the Magi,[1] and among the Babylonians or Assyrians the Chaldæi,[2] among the Indians the Gymnosophistæ,[3] and among the Celts and Gauls men who were called Druids[4] and Semnothei, as Aristotle relates in his book on Magic, and Sotion in the twenty-third book of his Succession of Philosophers. Besides those men there were the Phœnician Ochus, the Thracian Zamolxis,[5] and the Libyan Atlas. For the Egyptians say that Vulcan was the son of Nilus, and that he was the author of philosophy, in which those who were especially eminent were called his priests and prophets. II. From his age to that of Alexander, king of the Macedonians were forty-eight thousand eight hundred and sixty-three years, and during this time there were three hundred and seventy-three eclipses of the sun, and eight hundred and thirty-two eclipses of the moon. Again, from the time of the Magi, the first of whom was Zoroaster the Persian, to that of the fall of Troy, Hermodorus the Platonic philosopher, in his treatise on Mathematics, calculates that fifteen thousand years elapsed. But Xanthus the Lydian says that the passage of the Hellespont by Xerxes took place six thousand years after the time of Zoroaster,[6] and that after him there was a regular succession of Magi under the names of Ostanes and Astrampsychos and Gobryas and Pazatas, until the destruction of the Persian empire by Alexander. III. But those who say this, ignorantly impute to the barbarians the merits of the Greeks, from whom not only all philosophy, but even the whole human race in reality originated.…