Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

“We probably shouldn’t trust anything that we can’t find in another source, but many of the things you read in here pop up everywhere when you read about these philosophers in modern accounts because, in the end, it’s all we have.” Read more...

The best books on Leadership: Lessons from the Ancients

Jeffrey Beneker, Classicist

“Diogenes is very keen on making this a personal story. He’s both interested in telling us all sorts of odd and fantastical stories about the individual philosophers, but he’s also very interested in showing how each of these individual philosophers was influenced directly and personally by other predecessors. I think of it as a family tree of philosophies with Epicurus as the final branch of one of those trees.” Read more...

The best books on The Epicureans

James Warren, Philosopher