Diogenes likely washed up in Athens in the mid-360s, around the same time as a teenage Aristotle. At this point, Plato was nearly 60 and Antisthenes around 80—if, indeed, he was still alive.

This book, Laertii Diogenis Vitae et sententiae eorum qui in philosophia probati fuerunt (Lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius), was printed in 1475 by Nicholas Jenson (1420-1480) in Venice.

Diogenes Laertius compiled “Lives of the Eminent Philosophers” sometime early in the 3rd century. Virtually nothing is known about him, but his book enjoyed centuries of esteem as a richly ...

Commentary on Diogenes Laertius 9.61–116 (pp. 52-72) Elizabeth Scharffenberger and Katja Maria Vogt. C. Essays; Pyrrhonism in Diogenes Laertius (pp. 75-104) Richard Bett. Precursors of Pyrrhonism: ...