Even Alexander envied his life saying that if he had not been Alexander, he should have liked to be Diogenes. Most of the text in this book is devoted to the anecdotes concerning Diogenes's life and sayings. The latter overlaps with Plato and Aristotle while the Diogenes who writes of him lives centuries later. Their school of thought is known an Cynicism. Diogenes Laertius hereafter DL lives in the 3rd Century CE, while Diogenes of Sinope’s dates from C. There is a number of interesting anecdotes on the lives of Antisthenes, Diogenes of Sinope, Monimus, Onesicritus, Crates of Thebes, Metrocles, Hipparchia, Menippus and Menedemus. Diogenes Laertius and Suidas call him Athen-aios, and Epiphanius says, 'Antisthenes was the son of a Thracian woman but was himself an Athenian citizen.'3 The opening passage of Diogenes Laertius may be interpreted to mean that he was an Athenian citizen in spite of the fact that his parents were not both Athenians. Translated by Charles Duke Yonge (1812 - 1891) Download cover art Download CD case insert The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI