Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres y de cada escuela filosófica (Libro IX)

Lives and opinions of the illustrious philosophers constitutes a literary phenomenon loved by some and despised by others. In recent years there has been an extraordinary revival of interest in this work from the field of philology, philosophy and translation, making it one of the most frequently cited not only in philosophy, but in the entire history of literature. It is an essential source for the study of numerous ancient philosophers, schools and currents of Western thought. The Lives are, despite Nietzsche to whom we owe part of Diogenes' discredit, a sort of philosophical and literary labyrinth, in which, even though reference points are sometimes lacking, they offer a personal testimony of multiple missing materials. A book in which, in a sometimes simple and humorous tone, philosophy and life in a unique and rare harmony in the history of philosophy are intertwined.