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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.
Alexander und Diogenes by Lovis Corinth, 1894, at the Graphische Sammlung Albertina Alexander and Diogenes, lithograph illustration by Louis Loeb in Century Magazine, 1898. According to legend, Alexander the Great came to visit the philosopher Diogenes of Sinope. Alexander wanted to fulfill a wish for Diogenes and asked him what he desired. [5]
Diogenes Sitting in His Tub (1860) by Jean-Léon Gérôme. There is little record of Cynicism in the 2nd or 1st centuries BC; Cicero (c. 50 BC), who was much interested in Greek philosophy, had little to say about Cynicism, except that "it is to be shunned; for it is opposed to modesty, without which there can be neither right nor honor."
In addition, Athenaeus mentions works called Symposium [12] and Arcesilaus, [13] and Diogenes Laërtius mentions a Sale of Diogenes (Greek: Διογένους Πράσει) [14] written by Menippus which seems to be the main source of the story that Diogenes of Sinope was captured by pirates and sold into slavery.
Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the Eminent Philosophers is the best source. μηδείς 18:56, 14 August 2010 (UTC) The "bored holes in the tub" bit sounds like it is based on the old idea you find in older books and pictures that Diogenes' tub was a wooden barrel, whereas in fact it was an earthenware tub.
The following stories – all written by Newman – feature Jeperson in a central role. All appear in the Man From the Diogenes Club collection. "The End of the Pier Show": When members of a white power skinhead gang he is investigating undercover are brutally slaughtered by twisted apparitions of Nazi leaders on a disused seaside pier, D.C. Fred Regent meets Richard Jeperson and Vanessa as ...
First page of the De vita from a 15th-century illuminated manuscript from Milan. De vita et moribus philosophorum ('Lives and Manners of the Philosophers') [1] is an anonymous Latin biographical dictionary of 132 ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and other luminaries from Thales of Miletus in the 6th century BC to Priscian in the 6th century AD. [2]
Diogenes of Apollonia (/ d aɪ ˈ ɒ dʒ ɪ n iː z / dy-OJ-in-eez; Ancient Greek: Διογένης ὁ Ἀπολλωνιάτης, romanized: Diogénēs ho Apollōniátēs; fl. 5th century BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, and was a native of the Milesian colony Apollonia in Thrace.