This will be my next expensive book purchase in about 11 days ($60)
This edition presents a radically improved text of Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers. The text is accompanied by a full critical apparatus on three levels. A lengthy introduction lists all the manuscripts of the Lives and discusses its transmission in late antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. There is also an index of personal names, a bibliography and notes covering several features of the text and its interpretation. Professor Dorandi has used the Nachlaß of Peter Von der Mühll, for the first time in its entirety, to verify and consolidate material that he had previously gathered. This is by far the most detailed and elaborate edition which Diogenes' Lives - a unique work which has had a profound influence on European literature and philosophy - has ever received.
I tried the free place, and the main text doesn't have any text, just a bunch of defunct footnote numbers arranged like geometrical shapes. In the meantime there's a not so bad edition that has some footnotes.
I shall be lying down now, I must only be awake for 5 hrs at a time, as I need to get through the next week and 3 quarters without asking my bro for money. Love all you nice people, weekend is almost here, have a good rest of the week ......:)
46-50, M