Ancient catalogue of lost works
The catalogue names On Nature, On Atoms and Void, On Love, Epitome of Objections to the Physicists, Against the Megarians, Problems, Principal Doctrines, On Choice and Avoidance, On the End, On the Criterion or Canon, Chaeredemus, On the Gods, On Piety, Hegesianax, On Human Life, On Just Dealing, Neocles, Symposium, Eurylochus, On Vision, On the Angle in the Atom, and On Touch.
Understanding the text
The list continues: On Fate, Opinions about the Feelings against Timocrates, Discovery of the Future, Introduction to Philosophy, On Images, On Presentation, Aristobulus, On Music, On Justice and the Other Virtues, On Benefits and Gratitude, Polymedes, Timocrates, Metrodorus, Antidorus, On Diseases and Death to Mithras, Callistolas, On Kingship, Anaximenes, and Correspondence.
Titles documented in Diogenes Laertius X.27–28; a bibliographical dossier, not reconstructed texts.
Key points
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An ancient selection
Diogenes presents the most important works, not a guaranteed exhaustive bibliography of everything written.
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Titles, not summaries
A title identifies a general subject; it does not license invented arguments, structure, or dating.
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Books and works
On Nature comprised thirty-seven books; On Human Life four, Timocrates three, Metrodorus five, and Antidorus two. These divisions are not independent works.
How to read it
Consult §§27–28 for title variants and dedications; surviving texts have separate pages in this catalogue.
Editions & sources
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- Consult the reference 2raw.githubusercontent.comnew tab
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