Steamy romance, barbed humor, wicked cattiness, tender acts of humanity, jealous feuds, terrible puns, sophistical paradoxes, deathbed deceptions, forgery, and political intrigueтАКтАж while the philosophers of ancient Greece were developing their remarkable and penetrating philosophies, they were also leading strange and varied livesтАФat times living out their principles in practice, at other times seeming to defy all principle.
Diogenes La├лrtius collected as much biographical information as he could find about these ancient sages, and tried to sift through the sometimes contradictory accounts to find the true story. He shares with us anecdotes and witty remarks and biographical details that reveal the people behind the philosophies, and frequently adds a brief poem of his own construction that comments sardonically on how each philosopher died.
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