{"product_id":"lives-of-the-eminent-philosophers-compact-edition-9780197523391","title":"Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Compact Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Diogenes Laertius\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Philosophers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide variety of ideas and examples to follow. This rich tradition was recast by Diogenes Laertius into an anthology, a miscellany of maxims and anecdotes, that generations of Western readers have consulted for edification as well as entertainment ever since the \u003cem\u003eLives of the Eminent Philosophers\u003c\/em\u003e, first compiled in the third century AD, came to prominence in Renaissance Italy. To this day, it remains a crucial source for much of what we know about the origins and practice of philosophy in ancient Greece, covering a longer period of time and a larger number of figures-from Pythagoras and Socrates to Aristotle and Epicurus-than any other ancient source.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45031270285463,"sku":"9780197523391","price":1749.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780197523391.webp?v=1767896733","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/lives-of-the-eminent-philosophers-compact-edition-9780197523391","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}