What is Diogenes Laërtius?
{{for|other people named Diogenes|Diogenes}} '''Diogenes Laërtius''' was a [[historian]]. He wrote a ''history of Greek philosophy'', in ten volumes. Very little is known about him as a person. Probably he lived in the 3rd century BC. The last philiosopher found in this work is a student of [[Sextus Empiricus]]. Sextus Empiricus lived in the 2nd century. Diogenes Laertius does not list many [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] philiosphers. He also does not talk about [[Middle Platonism]], which must have been popular during that time. {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Diogenes Laertius}} [[Category:Ancient Greek philosophers]] [[Category:3rd-century BC births]] {{bio-stub}}