Diogenes Laertius, Book 6 API - urantia.dev

The API serves Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics (R. D. Hicks, 1925) as JSON, one passage at a time, by the reference people use. The lives and sayings of Diogenes and the other Cynic philosophers. It has 105 passages in 1 book. No key and no account.

Get a passage

# DL 6.20
curl https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/diogenes-laertius-6/6.20

{
  "data": {
    "corpus": {
      "slug": "diogenes-laertius-6",
      "title": "Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics",
      "translator": "R. D. Hicks",
      "year": 1925
    },
    "passages": [
      {
        "ref": "DL 6.20",
        "division": 6,
        "text": "Diogenes was a native of Sinope, son of Hicesius, a banker. Diocles relates that he went into exile because his father was entrusted with the money of the state and adulterated the coinage. But Eubulides in his book on..."
      }
    ]
  }
}

The slug diogenes-laertius-6, the id diogenes-laertius-6-hicks-1925, and the prefix dl all name this text.

References

Book and section, DL 6.20. Each section also names the life it belongs to, such as Diogenes. GET /scriptures/diogenes-laertius-6 lists every book with its first and last reference.

Search

# By meaning
curl -X POST https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/search/semantic \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"your question","corpus":"diogenes-laertius-6","limit":5}'
# By keyword
curl 'https://api.urantia.dev/works/search?q=your%20words&work=diogenes-laertius-6'

Each passage also links to the closest paragraphs of the Urantia Papers: GET /scriptures/diogenes-laertius-6/6.20/urantia-parallels. The world religions guide explains how the links are made, and the MCP server has the same calls for AI agents.

Source

Text: Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics, translated by R. D. Hicks (1925)
Source: en.wikisource.org
License: Public domain in the United States
Notes: Book 6 only: the lives and sayings of Antisthenes, Diogenes, Crates, Hipparchia, and the other Cynics. A biography, not scripture.