He was a session musician for some well-known technical death metal bands such as Atheist, Cynic and the Dutch band Pestilence.

He's also emphasized on several occasions that listening to and playing a diverse assortment of music has been an integral part in developing his style, noting such eclectic influences as 70's jazz-rock fusion group Mahavishnu Orchestra, technical metal bands Meshuggah, Cynic, and electronic-influenced groups such as Nine Inch Nails and DJ Shadow.

On Jesus as a Cynic, Casey states that " When all the evidence is taken into account, supposed parallels of this kind show that Jesus was quite different from a Cynic philosopher, not that he was like one.

In late 2010, Intronaut opened for Cynic as part of Cynic's " Re-Traced / Re-Focused Tour " all over the United States and Canada, and shortly thereafter toured North America again opening for Helmet.

He seems to have become a Cynic at this point, because he returned home and renounced his inheritance, giving away all his money to the people of his home city.

This coincides with the influences of Cynic teaching, and was, at least in part, continued in his Stoic philosophy.

Mack suggests that at this time Jesus was seen simply as a teacher by the community which produced the text, with many similarities to a sage in the Cynic tradition.

With Plutarch, with Herodes Atticus, to whom he bequeathed his library at Rome, with Demetrius the Cynic, Cornelius Fronto, Aulus Gellius, and with Hadrian himself, he lived on intimate terms ; his great rival, whom he violently attacked in his later years, was Polemon of Smyrna.

Wells allows for the possibility that certain elements of the Gospel traditions might be based on a historical figure from the first-century Palestine: " he Galilean and the Cynic elements ... may contain a core of reminiscences of an itinerant Cynic-type Galilean preacher ( who, however, is certainly not to be identified with the Jesus of the earliest Christian documents ).

The Cynicism ( philosophy ) | Cynic philosopher Diogenes of Sinope | Diogenes, pictured by Jean-Léon Gérôme | Gérôme with the large jar in which he lived ; when strangers at the inn were expressing their wish to catch sight of the great orator Demosthenes, Diogenes is said to have stuck out his middle finger and exclaimed " this, for you, is the Demagogue # History and definition of the word | demagogue of the Classical Athens | Athenians "

Cynic recorded a complex, unorthodox form of jazz-fusion-influenced experimental death metal with their 1993 album Focus.

Tech-prog-fusion metal band Aghora formed in 1995 and released their first album, self titled Aghora, recorded in 1999 with Sean Malone and Sean Reinert, both former members of Cynic.

The surviving text of Tacitus breaks off at the moment when Thrasea was about to address Demetrius, the Cynic philosopher, with whom he had previously that day held a conversation on the nature of the soul.

On the advice of the Delphic oracle, he put on the clothes of a beggar, and with nothing in his pocket but a copy of Plato's Phaedo and Demosthenes's oration on the Embassy, he lived the life of a Cynic philosopher, undertaking a journey to the countries in the north and east of the Roman empire.

Maximus united the faith of an orthodox believer with the garb and deportment of a Cynic philosopher.

After touring with Death, he returned to Cynic.

In 2009, a new EP with Cynic was recorded scheduled for release in May, 2010.

So while recording their third album Testimony Of The Ancients ( 1991 ), they enlisted bassist Tony Choy, who at the time was playing with the technical death metal band Cynic and Patrick Mameli took over the vocal duties.

Later, he also wrote with her The Limerick Up To Date Book ( 1903 ) and The Complete Cynic ( 1910 ).

On March 6, 2010, Arsis performed at the Eye Scream Metal Fest II in Mexico City ( the band's first ever performance in Latin America ) with Sacred Reich, Cynic, Municipal Waste, and Dying Fetus.

Because of his early association with the Academy, Diogenes Laërtius placed Bion among the Academics, but there is nothing in his life or thought suggesting an affinity with Platonism and modern scholars regard him as a Cynic, albeit an atypical one with strong Hedonistic or Cyrenaic leanings.

His first high-level experience in metal music was with the progressive metal band Cynic from Florida.

He re-joined Cynic with Reinert and Masvidal in May 2008 and recorded on their second, comeback album titled Traced in Air, but did not tour with the band.

After enough commuting back and forth from Iceland, Hartwell decided to accept the offer, leaving Cynic Guru with him.

On 15 October 184 at the Capitoline Games, a Cynic philosopher publicly denounced Perennis before Commodus, who was watching, but was immediately put to death.

In this, they are akin to Cynic philosophers such as Antisthenes and Diogenes in denying the importance to eudaimonia of external goods and circumstances, such as were recognized by Aristotle, who thought that severe misfortune ( such as the death of one ’ s family and friends ) could rob even the most virtuous person of eudaimonia.

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The album also features guitarist Paul Masvidal and drummer Sean Reinert, both of the bands Æon Spoke and fellow technical death metal pioneers Cynic.

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However, Demetrius was a very common name in the Roman world, and Demetrius of Sunium was probably, ( but not certainly ), a different, later Cynic.

With Crates ' help he was able to let go of his old ways and embrace a Cynic life free from convention, and find true happiness.

He outlined a system of Stoic philosophy that was, in many ways, closer to earlier Cynic philosophy.

A group led by Maximus the Cynic gained the support of Patriarch Peter of Alexandria by playing on his jealousy of the newly-created see of Constantinople.

Escaping the mob, Gregory next found himself betrayed by his erstwhile friend, the philosopher Maximus the Cynic.

The earliest mention of Justin is found in the Oratio ad Graecos by Tatian, who calls him " the most admirable Justin ," quotes a saying of his, and says that the Cynic Crescens laid snares for him.

According to Simplicius, Diogenes the Cynic said nothing upon hearing Zeno's arguments, but stood up and walked, in order to demonstrate the falsity of Zeno's conclusions.

In response, the librarian pointed to Crates of Thebes, the most famous Cynic living at that time in Greece.

According to Craig A. Evans " The Cynic hypothesis will in time assuredly be consigned to the dustbin of ill-conceived hypotheses, but it will be useful nonetheless to appeal to it as our point of departure.

Crates (; c. 365 – c. 285 BC ) of Thebes was a Cynic philosopher.

Various fragments of Crates ' teachings survive, including his description of the ideal Cynic state.

He was the son of Ascondus, and was the heir to a large fortune, which he is said to have renounced to live a life of Cynic poverty in Athens.

There are 36 surviving Cynic epistles attributed to Crates, but these are later, 1st-century, compositions.

There are also several fragments surviving of a poem Crates wrote describing the ideal Cynic state which begins by parodying Homer's description of Crete.

The word tuphos () in the first line, is one of the first known Cynic uses of a word which literally means mist or smoke.

Later writers regarded him as the founder of Cynic philosophy.

There are many later tales about the infamous Cynic Diogenes of Sinope dogging Antisthenes ' footsteps and becoming his faithful hound, but it is no means certain that the two men ever met.

Antisthenes certainly adopted a rigorous ascetic lifestyle, and he developed many of the principles of Cynic philosophy which became an inspiration for Diogenes and later Cynics.