New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2013. A new critical edition of Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers, a unique work which has had a profound influence on European literature and philosophy. A lengthy introduction lists all the manuscripts of the lives and discusses its transmission in late antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The text is accompanied by a three level apparatus, an index of names and notes covering several features of the text and its interpretation.