Contents
Preface xi
Introduction 1

1 Diogenes Laertius 19
2 Plato 33
3 Xenophon 137
4 Contemporary Comic Dramatists 161
5 The Athenian Orators 175
6 Aristotle 179
7 Later Writers: Historical 185
8 Later Writers: Philosophical 189
9 Later Writers: General 217
10 Libanius 249
11 Gnomologia 291
12 Christian Writers 303
13 Lexicographers 319
14 Commentators on Classical Authors 325
15 Fictitious Letters 331