Just had my article on the Cynic philosopher Hipparchia posted to History in an Hour.com. She's a fascinating character, who applies her understanding of Cynic philosophy to her own situation and decides that normal rules about women and what they could and couldn't do simply don't have to apply to her.
http://www.historyinanhour.com/blog/
Diogenes Laertius is a horrible writer (out of some kind of wierd, misplaced humour he feels the need to sometimes end his biographies of philosophers with nastly little poems about their deaths) but he offers an absorbing compendium of characters and anecdotes in his Lives of the Philosophers. His very lack of discrimination and his wholesale dumping of detail from his sources, some of which he clearly doesn't really comprehend himself makes him so invaluable as a repository.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.01.0258
Really enjoying Gore Vidal's Julian at the moment - can't believe I never read it before.
