Usage: {{Cite Lives of the Eminent Philosophers|chapter=name of the philosopher}} (see here for list)
This template allows links to a book on Wikisource called Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. It is a wrapper around {{cite book}}
Usage edit
Most of the parameters for this template are preset:
|last=Laërtius
|first=Diogenes
|translator-first=Robert Drew
|translator-last=Hicks
|year=1925 — this is the default but it can be modified
and set to an alternative e.g. year=1925b
(for use with {{harv}} templates and multiple chapters from this book)
|title=Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
|edition=Two volume
|publisher=Loeb Classical Library
The ones that can be set by the editor are:
|§=section – add the section or sections to the citation. Eg §=5 or §=5–10 etc |noicon=x — removes the Wikisource icon from the front of the display |short=x — reduces the number of parameters displayed |mode=cs2 — see the documentation of the template{{cite book}}|ref= — see the documentation of the template{{cite book}}|chapter=one of the names in the tables below — this is the only parameter that must be entered
| All of the book | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Face plate | Index | |||
| Volume 1 | ||||
| Book I[a] | Book II | Book III | Book IV | Book V |
| The Seven Sages | Socrates, with predecessors and followers | Plato | The Academics | The Peripatetics |
| Prologue | Anaximander | Plato | Speusippus | Aristotle |
| Thales | Anaximenes | Xenocrates | Theophrastus | |
| Solon | Anaxagoras | Polemo | Strato | |
| Chilon | Archelaus | Crates | Lyco | |
| Pittacus | Socrates | Crantor | Demetrius | |
| Bias | Xenophon | Arcesilaus | Heraclides | |
| Cleobulus | Aeschines | Bion | ||
| Periander | Aristippus | Lacydes | ||
| Anacharsis | Phaedo | Carneades | ||
| Myson | Euclides | Clitomachus | ||
| Epimenides | Stilpo | |||
| Pherecydes | Crito | |||
| Simon | ||||
| Glaucon | ||||
| Simmias | ||||
| Cebes | ||||
| Menedemus (book ii) | ||||
| Additional subsections[b] | ||||
| Hegesias | ||||
| Anniceris | ||||
| Theodorus | ||||
| Volume 2 | ||||
| Book VI | Book VII | Book VIII | Book IX | Book X |
| The Cynics | The Stoics | Pythagoreans | Others | Epicurus |
| Antisthenes | Zeno | Pythagoras | Heraclitus | Epicurus |
| Diogenes | Ariston | Empedocles | Xenophanes | |
| Monimus | Herillus | Epicharmus | Parmenides | |
| Onesicritus | Dionysius | Archytas | Melissus | |
| Crates | Cleanthes | Alcmaeon | Zeno of Elea | |
| Metrocles | Sphaerus | Hippasus | Leucippus | |
| Hipparchia | Chrysippus | Philolaus | Democritus | |
| Menippus | Eudoxus | Protagoras | ||
| Menedemus (book vi) | Diogenes of Apollonia | |||
| Anaxarchus | ||||
| Pyrrho | ||||
| Timon | ||||
| Additional subsections | ||||
| Persaeus | Metrodorus | |||
| Kuriai Doxai | ||||
Notes
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See also edit
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