# Simon the Shoemaker — The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers character guide

> Simon the Shoemaker in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0028-simon

## Who they are

An Athenian shoemaker who turned his workshop into a Socratic salon, proving that philosophy could thrive as easily on leather as in the Academy.

## In the story

### [Simon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lives_and_opinions_of_eminent_philosophers_se/chapters/simon)

Athenian leather-cutter who recorded Socrates' sayings and authored thirty-three dialogues.

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