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Diogenes Laërtius · fl. 3rd century CE

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.35 — Diogenes Laërtius on Zeno

Translation by R. D. Hicks (1925)

Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.35

Reported speech · Diogenes Laërtius on Zeno

There have been eight persons of the name of Zeno. First the Eleatic, of whom more hereafter; the second our present subject; the third a Rhodian who wrote a local history in one volume; the fourth a historian who wrote about the expedition of Pyrrhus into Italy and Sicily, and besides that an epitome of the political history of Rome and Carthage; the fifth a pupil of Chrysippus, who left few writings but many disciples; the sixth a physician of the school of Herophilus, a competent practitioner, though a poor writer; the seventh a grammarian, who besides other writings has left behind him epigrams; the eighth a Sidonian by birth and an Epicurean philosopher, lucid both in thinking and in style.
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A list of eight different men called Zeno, including the Eleatic, the founder of Stoicism, a historian, a physician, a grammarian and an Epicurean. Reference information only, with no practical advice.

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“Eleatic”
— from Elea, a Greek city known for a school of philosophy
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