Diogenes Laertius

Diogenes Laertius, the Greek author of a history of philosophy, was born at Laerte, in Cilicia, whence his name. Little is known about him personally, but it is probable that he lived about the second century A.D. His work is interesting as throwing light upon Greek life, and as preserving fragments of other writers which would have otherwise been lost. Many later writers of lives of the philosophers have drawn upon his stores.