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Antonius Diogenes (Koinē Greek: Ἀντώνιος Διογένης) was the author of an ancient Greek romance entitled The Wonders Beyond Thule (Τὰ ὑπὲρ Θoύλην ἄπιστα). [1] Scholars have placed him in the 2nd century , but his age was unknown even to Photius I, Patriarch of Constantinople , who wrote a synopsis of the ...
Diogenes the Cynic, [a] also known as Diogenes of Sinope (c. 413/403–c. 324/321 BCE), was an ancient Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynicism.Renowned for his ascetic lifestyle, biting wit, and radical critiques of social conventions, he became a legendary figure whose life and teachings have been recounted, often through anecdote, in both antiquity and later cultural traditions.
Diogenes requests that Alexander return the sunshine to him, it being something that Alexander cannot give to him in the first place. [4] [22] Diogenes' answer circulated as an aphorism in western Britain in the early Middle Ages, but it does not seem to have been understood or else had become completely divorced from the story.
Diogenes of Babylon (also known as Diogenes of Seleucia; Ancient Greek: Διογένης Βαβυλώνιος; Latin: Diogenes Babylonius; c. 230 – c. 150/140 BC [1]) was a Stoic philosopher. He was the head of the Stoic school in Athens , and he was one of three philosophers sent to Rome in 155 BC.
Diogenes Club, named after Diogenes of Sinope, co-founded by Sherlock Holmes' brother Mycroft; Diogenes, an interstellar scout ship in Poul Anderson's The Entity; Diogenes Small, a character created by Colin Dexter in the Inspector Morse series of books; Diogenes Pendergast, a character from Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's Pendergast series ...
Diogenes is characterized by Theophrastus as the last of the "physiologoi" or natural philosophers. [2] As a material monist , he synthesized the work of earlier monists such as Anaximenes and Heraclitus with the pluralism of Anaxagoras and Empedocles and argued that air was a divine cosmic ordering principle that he also equated with ...
Rubens: Tereus Confronted with the Head of his Son Itys, 1636–38. In Greek mythology, Tereus (/ ˈ t ɛ r i ə s, ˈ t ɪər j uː s /; Ancient Greek: Τηρεύς) was a Thracian king, [1] [2] the son of Ares and the naiad Bistonis. He was the brother of Dryas. Tereus was the husband of the Athenian princess Procne and the father of Itys.
Diogenes or On Tyranny (Ancient Greek: Διογένης ἢ περὶ τυραννίδος, romanized: Diogenēs e peri turannidos, Oration 6 in modern corpora) is a speech delivered by Dio Chrysostom between AD 82 and 96, arguing for the superiority of the cynic lifestyle, through a contrast between the life of Diogenes and that of the Persian king, the prototypical tyrant.