Template:Cite Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

Usage: {{Cite Lives of the Eminent Philosophers|chapter=name of the philosopher}} (see here for list)

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This template allows links to a book on Wikisource called Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. It is a wrapper around {{cite book}}

Usage

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

chapter=

All of the book
Face plate		Index
Volume 1
Book I	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
	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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• Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating the template Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

See also

• {{LotEP poster}}

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