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en-wikipedia-org-5587		Diogenes Laërtius - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2996	422	63	Diogenes Laërtius's work has had a complicated reception in modern times.[19] The value of his Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers as an insight into the private lives of the Greek sages led the French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) to exclaim that he wished that, instead of one Laërtius, there had been a dozen.[20] Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) criticized Diogenes Laërtius for his lack of philosophical talent and categorized his work as nothing more than a compilation of previous writers' opinions.[18] Nonetheless, he admitted that Diogenes Laërtius's compilation was an important one given the information that it contained.[18] Hermann Usener (1834–1905) deplored Diogenes Laërtius as a "complete ass" (asinus germanus) in his Epicurea (1887).[18] Werner Jaeger (1888–1961) damned him as "that great ignoramus".[21] In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, however, scholars have managed to partially redeem Diogenes Laertius's reputation as a writer by reading his book in a Hellenistic literary context.[19] Despite his importance to the history of western philosophy and the controversy surrounding him, according to Gian Mario Cao, Diogenes Laërtius has still not received adequate philological attention.[18] Both modern critical editions of his book, by H. Lives of Eminent Philosophers, edited by Tiziano Dorandi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013 (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, vol.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5587.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5587.txt