* Sean Malone of Cynic and Gordian Knot

* Sean Malone ( Gordian Knot, Cynic ) – bass, Chapman Stick on Office of Strategic Influence

A second Gordian Knot album, Emergent, included performances from Bill Bruford ( Yes, King Crimson ), Jim Matheos ( Fates Warning ), and Steve Hackett ( Genesis, GTR ), as well as Cynic members Sean Reinert, Paul Masvidal and Jason Gobel.

Both Sean Reinert ( Cynic, Gordian Knot ) and Asgeir Mickelson ( Spiral Architect ) were set to perform drum tracks at certain times, but backed out due to conflicts with other projects.

The new project involved Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy and Cynic bassist / Chapman Stick player Sean Malone.

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.

He became Cynic's bassist quite unexpectedly ; as Cynic had a scheduled recording of their debut album, Focus in a studio in which Sean Malone was working as an engineer as well as a producer and a session musician.

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.

Sean Reinert ( born May 27, 1971 ) is the drummer of Cynic and Æon Spoke.

* Sean Malone ( of Cynic, et al.

* Sean Reinert ( Cynic )

The album has contributions from Sean Reinert ( Cynic ), Trey Gunn ( King Crimson ), Ron Jarzombek ( Watchtower, Spastic Ink, Blotted Science ) and John Myung ( Dream Theater ).

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

Jarzombek also got contributions from fellow guitarist Marty Friedman ( ex-Megadeth ), Pain of Salvation vocalist Daniel Gildenlöw, Watchtower band mates Jason McMaster and Doug Keyser, bassists Pete Perez, Sean Malone ( Cynic ), Ray Riendeau ( Halford, Machines of Loving Grace ), and Michael Manring ( Michael Hedges, Attention Deficit ), as well as keyboardists Jens Johansson ( Stratovarius ), Jimmy Pitts ( Scholomance, The Fractured Dimension ), and David Bagsby.

In September 2011, Cynic confirmed that Malone has recorded on their EP titled Carbon-Based Anatomy.

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.

Mark Van Erp played bass, in the band Cynic and he left Cynic to join Monstrosity.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Diogenes of Sinope (, Diogenēs ho Sinōpeus ) was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy.

Also known as Diogenes the Cynic (, Diogenēs ho Kunikos ), he was born in Sinope ( modern-day Sinop, Turkey ), an Ionian colony on the Black Sea, in 412 or 404 BC and died at Corinth in 323 BC.

) was a Greek grammarian, Cynic philosopher, and literary critic from Amphipolis in East Macedonia, then known as Thrace.

Menippus (; 3rd century BC ) of Gadara, was a Cynic and satirist.

Maximus, also known as Maximus I or Maximus the Cynic, was the intrusive archbishop of Constantinople in 380, where he became a rival of Gregory Nazianzus.

During this time in 2006, it was announced that Cynic would reform for a tour which took place in the summer of 2007.

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

Antisthenes founded a school at the Cynosarges, from which some say the name Cynic derives ; Plato founded a school that gathered at the Academy, after which the school was named, making the gymnasium famous for hundreds of years ; and at the Lyceum, Aristotle founded the Peripatetic school.

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

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

Diogenes Laërtius also calls him " Onesicritus of Aegina ", and says that he came to Athens because his two adult sons, Androsthenes and Philiscus, were attracted to the philosophy of Diogenes the Cynic, whence Onesicritus also became an ardent disciple.

It is impossible to describe in full Aristo's philosophical system because none of his writings survived intact, but from the fragments preserved by later writers, it is clear that Aristo was heavily influenced by earlier Cynic philosophy:

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.

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.

* Roadrunner, a demo record by Cynic for Roadrunner Records

But whereas Solon wished for prosperity, reputation, and " justly acquired possessions ," Crates had typically Cynic desires:

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.

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 "

A journalist known as " The Cynic " writing for a rugby football periodical called The Referee, suggested that Stephen Spragg, who had moved to Queensland, should be able to play for his state of birth, New South Wales.

* Dio, a chameleon named for Diogenes the Cynic.

Parrhesia was also a central concept for the Cynic philosophers, as epitomized in the shameless speech of Diogenes of Sinope.

He is most famous for his work in American band Cynic.

This paved the way for " Iceland "- Cynic Guru's debut album.

Cynic Guru was picked up by a British label, Fat Northerner Records, and a Japanese label, Westwood Records, for distribution.

Slated for release in 2008, Roland has said that likely tracks will include remakes of the eponymous song Cynic Guru, 3 Martinis, Psycho, Better, Serpentine, Radiation, and a new track called The Downfall of the Enemy.

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.

By outlining a version of Stoicism rooted in Cynic philosophy, he provided fruitful food for thought for both the supporters and the opponents of Stoicism ever since.

Cercidas ( or Kerkidas, ; 3rd century BCE ) was a poet, Cynic philosopher, and legislator for his native city Megalopolis.