Vitae philosophorum

Diogenes Laertius

Diogenes Laertius. Hicks, R. D., editor. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925.

  • On Nature, three books.
  • On Physics, eighteen books.
  • An Epitome of Physics, two books.
  • Eight books of Physics.
  • A Reply to the Physical Philosophers, one book
  • Of Botanical Researches, ten books.
  • Of Botanical Causes, eight books.
  • On Juices, five books.
  • Of False Pleasure, one book.
  • One Dissertation on the Soul.
  • On Unscientific Proofs, one book.
  • On Simple Problems, one book.
  • Harmonics, one book.
  • Of Virtue, one book.
  • Materials for Argument, or Contrarieties, one book.
  • On Negation, one book.
  • On Judgement, one book.
  • Of the Ludicrous, one book.
  • Afternoon Essays, two books.
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  • Divisions, two books.
  • On Differences, one book.
  • On Crimes, one book.
  • On Calumny, one book.
  • Of Praise, one book.
  • Of Experience, one book.
  • Three books of Letters.
  • On Animals produced spontaneously, one book.
  • Of Secretion, one book.

  • Panegyrics on the Gods, one book.
  • On Festivals, one book.
  • Of Good Fortune, one book.
  • On Enthymemes, one book.
  • Of Discoveries, two books.
  • Lectures on Ethics, one book.
  • Character Sketches, one book.
  • On Tumult or Riot, one book.
  • On Research, one book.
  • On Judging of Syllogisms, one book.
  • Of Flattery, one book.
  • Of the Sea, one book.
  • To Casander on Kingship, one book.
  • Of Comedy, one book.
  • [Of Metres, one book.]
  • Of Diction, one book.
  • A Compendium of Arguments, one book.
  • Solutions, one book.
  • On Music, three books.
  • On Measures, one book.
  • Megacles, one book.
  • On Laws, one book.
  • On Illegalities, one book.
  • A Compendium of the Writings of Xenocrates, one book.
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  • Concerning Conversation, one book.
  • On Taking an Oath, one book.
  • Rhetorical Precepts, one book.
  • Of Wealth, one book.
  • On the Art of Poetry, one book.
  • Problems in Politics, Ethics, Physics, and in the Art of Love, one book.

  • Preludes, one book.
  • A Collection of Problems, one book.
  • On Physical Problems, one book.
  • On Example, one book.
  • On Introduction and Narrative, one book.
  • Another tract on the Art of Poetry, one book.
  • Of the Wise, one book.
  • On Consultation, one book.
  • On Solecisms, one book.
  • On the Art of Rhetoric, one book.
  • The Special Commonplaces of the Treatises on Rhetoric, seventeen books.
  • On Acting, one book.
  • Lecture Notes of Aristotle or Theophrastus, six books.
  • Sixteen books of Physical Opinions.
  • Epitome of Physical Opinions, one book.
  • On Gratitude, one book.
  • [Character Sketches, one book.]
  • On Truth and Falsehood, one book.
  • The History of Theological Inquiry, six books.
  • Of the Gods, three books.
  • Geometrical Researches, four books.

  • Epitomes of Aristotle’s work on Animals, six books.
  • Two books of Refutative Arguments.
  • Theses, three books.
  • Of Kingship, two books.
  • Of Causes, one book.
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  • On Democritus, one book.
  • [Of Calumny, one book.]
  • Of Becoming, one book.
  • Of the Intelligence and Character of Animals, one book.
  • On Motion, two books.
  • On Vision, four books.
  • Relating to Definitions, two books.
  • On Data, one book.
  • On Greater and Less, one book.
  • On the Musicians, one book.
  • Of the Happiness of the Gods, one book.
  • A Reply to the Academics, one book.
  • Exhortation to Philosophy, one book.
  • How States can best be governed, one book.
  • Lecture-Notes, one book.
  • On the Eruption in Sicily, one book.
  • On Things generally admitted, one book.
  • [On Problems in Physics, one book.]
  • What are the methods of attaining Knowledge, one book.
  • On the Fallacy known as the Liar, three books.

  • Prolegomena to Topics, one book.
  • Relating to Aeschylus, one book.
  • Astronomical Research, six books.
  • Arithmetical Researches on Growth, one book.
  • Acicharus, one book.
  • On Forensic Speeches, one book.
  • [Of Calumny, one book.]
  • Correspondence with Astycreon, Phanias and Nicanor.
  • Of Piety, one book.
  • Evias, one book.
  • On Times of Crisis, two books.
  • On Relevant Arguments, one book.
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  • On the Education of Children, one book.
  • Another treatise with the same title, one book.
  • Of Education or of the Virtues or of Temperance, one book.
  • [An Exhortation to Philosophy, one book.]
  • On Numbers, one book.
  • Definitions concerning the Diction of Syllogisms, one book.
  • Of the Heavens, one book.
  • Concerning Politics, two books.
  • On Nature.
  • On Fruits.
  • On Animals.

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