Diogenes Laertius

• Diogenes Laertius (c.200-c.250 CE) was a Biographer of the Greek Philosophers.
• Although his exact dates are unknown, it is assumed that he lived in the first part of the third century CE under the Emperor Alexander Severus (222-235 CE).

Works

• ‘Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers’
  • A Biography of all the Greek Philosophers written in Greek.
• ‘Lives’
  • A Biography of famous men.