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Xenophon was a student of Socrates. In his Lives of Eminent Philosophers, the Greek biographer Diogenes Laërtius (who writes many centuries later) reports how Xenophon met Socrates. "They say that Socrates met [Xenophon] in a narrow lane, and put his stick across it and prevented him from passing by, asking him where all kinds of necessary ...
The ancient biographer Diogenes Laertius reports that Xenophanes was born in Colophon, a city that once existed in Ionia, in present-day Turkey. [3] [a] Laertius stated that Xenophanes is said to have flourished during the 60th Olympiad (540–537 BC), [b] and modern scholars generally place his birth some time around 570–560 BC. [3]
Ancient Greek biographers (23 P) Greek autobiographers (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Greek biographers" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Engraving facing the title page of an 18th-century edition of Plutarch's Lives. The Parallel Lives (Ancient Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi; Latin: Vītae Parallēlae) is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written in Greek by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century.
Gaius Acilius; Acesander; Alexander Lychnus; Alexander Polyhistor; Appian; Arrian; Zarmanochegas; Caecilius of Calacte; Callinicus (Sophist) Castor of Rhodes; Dio ...
Plutarch (/ ˈ p l uː t ɑːr k /; Ancient Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos, Koinē Greek: [ˈplúːtarkʰos]; c. AD 46 – 120s) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, [1] historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
Apollonius was born into a respected and wealthy aristocratic Greek household. [6] [7] His primary biographer, Philostratus the Elder (c. 170 – c. 247), places him c. 3 BC – c. AD 97, however, the Roman historian Cassius Dio (c. AD 155 – c. 235) writes that Apollonius was in his 40s or 50s in the 90s AD, from which the scholar Maria Dzielska gives a birth year of about AD 40.