Eros en la

Abstract

The work of Diogenes Laertius, dating from the 3rd century AD, is a collection of biographies of philosophers, which adopts a mainly literary and biographical approach, in which the anecdotal tends to dominate over the truly philosophical. In Diogenes' "Lives", eros/love (in this work less a deity than a passion or emotion) sometimes appears as an aspect of the vital experience of certain philosophers, but sometimes Diogenes also summarises the theoretical conceptions of love of certain thinkers or schools of thought (in particular Aristotle, the Stoics and the Epicureans). This chapter is therefore divided into two sections, each dealing with one aspect separately.