![]() ![]() Mensch: only bold names at the head of each biography.If a new biography or section begins on the left-hand page, however, one cannot tell what Book one is in (see, e.g., pp. This is especially helpful in Book 7 on Stoic doctrine and Book 10 on Epicurus and Epicurean thought. ![]() White: new biographies always begin on a new page, as do subheaded sections, for example “Plato: Life” (3.1–47), “Plato’s Writings” (3.47–66), and “Plato’s Doctrines” (3.67–167).Mensch: small-font marginal section numeration.White: sort of reproduces Dorandi’s marginal lineation, except that he counts continuously from the beginning of the Book, not of each biography as Dorandi does reproduces Dorandi’s inline bold section numeration.Mensch: no intentional departures (several disagreements resolved for the paperback), but following Dorandi’s quotation-marks more frequently.463–68), hence the “edited translation” of the book’s title. White: 128 departures (recorded on pp.As the deadline for really-belated holiday shopping fast approaches, I write this review with the detail-oriented comparison shopper in mind.īoth rely on Tiziano Dorandi’s 2013 Cambridge edition, Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers. ![]() Both are excellent, though like the Ionic and Italic philosophical lineages each has its distinguishing marks. When it came out with Cambridge this summer, of course, Pamela Mensch’s Oxford translation of Diogenes Laertius (2018 BMCR review CJ review) had already received an updated paperback “Compact Edition” (2020). This translation of Diogenes Laertius by Stephen White has long been eagerly anticipated some years ago, for a class I was teaching, he shared four chapters with me – in exchange for a few dozen minor notes. ![]()
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