{"product_id":"2940170607778","title":"Lives of the Eminent Philosophers","description":"\u003cp\u003eEveryone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide variety of ideas and examples to follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis rich tradition was recast by Diogenes Laertius into an anthology, a miscellany of maxims and anecdotes, that generations of Western readers have consulted for edification as well as entertainment ever since the \u003ci\u003eLives of the Eminent Philosophers\u003c\/i\u003e, first compiled in the third century AD, came to prominence in Renaissance Italy. To this day, it remains a crucial source for much of what we know about the origins and practice of philosophy in ancient Greece, covering a longer period of time and a larger number of figuresamp;mdash;from Pythagoras and Socrates to Aristotle and Epicurusamp;mdash;than any other ancient source.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdited by James Miller.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47115475615984,"sku":"2940170607778","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170607778_p0.jpg?v=1763714042","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170607778","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}