ΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣ ΛΑΕΡΤΙΟΥ (DIOGENIS LAERTIUS): ΠΕΡΙ ΒΙΩΝ ΔΟΓΜΑΤΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΑΠΟΦΕΥΓΜΑΤΩΝ ΕΝ Ω ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑ..ΒΙΒΛΙΑ ΔΕΚΑ.ΕΝΕΤΙΗΣΙ (VENICE) 1798 Greek Enlightenment first edition, large 8vo, contemporary leather over boards, spine gilt, text clean and bright, complete 512p., overall in very good condition. This is classical edition of the Modern Greek Enlightenment (Νεοελληνικός Διαφωτισμός). While Diogenes Laertius wrote in the 3rd century AD, the 1798 Venice edition was part of the specific movement to bring classical wisdom back to the Greek people during the Napoleonic era.Printed by the famous Glykys Theodosiou printing house in Venice. These publishers were responsible for the intellectual rearmament of Greece, printing books that were then often smuggled into the Ottoman Empire. Laertius is the primary source for the lives of the great ancient philosophers. In 1798, presenting the Lives of these Philosophers was a political act,it reminded Greeks of their intellectual ancestry at a time when the French Revolution was spreading ideas of liberty across Europe. This concrete book was used in the Great Schools of the Nation, like those in Chios, Smyrna, and Ioannina. An influential edition of Greek Enlightenment.