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Diogenes also tells us that Heraclitus deposited his book as a dedication in the great temple of Artemis, the Artemisium, one of the largest temples of the 6th century BCE and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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" Diogenes Laertius also says that Nicocreon, the tyrant of Cyprus, commanded him to be pounded to death in a mortar, and that he endured this torture with fortitude and Cicero relates the same story.
A similar belief was attributed by some ancient sources to Diogenes Apolloniates ( late 5th century BCE ), who also linked air with intelligence and soul ( psyche ), but other sources claim that his arche was a substance between air and fire.
( Diogenes Laertius quoting Cleanthes ; quoted also by Seneca, Epistle 107.
A July, 1967 Time Magazine study on hippie philosophy credited the foundation of the hippie movement with historical precedent as far back as the counterculture of the Ancient Greeks, espoused by philosophers like Diogenes of Sinope and the Cynics also as early forms of hippie culture.
He is also referred to as " Laertes ," or just " Diogenes.
Thomas Carlyle, in his Sartor Resartus ( 1834 ), compares its hero Diogenes Teufelsdroeckh on several occasions to the Wandering Jew, ( also using the German wording ' der ewige Jude ').
It is also possible that Diogenes visited Athens and Antisthenes before his exile, and returned to Sinope.
Likewise we find mention of monographs of Theophrastus on the early Greek philosophers Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Archelaus, Diogenes of Apollonia, Democritus, which were made use of by Simplicius ; and also on Xenocrates, against the Academics, and a sketch of the political doctrine of Plato.
The village of Bricket Wood has been host to at least six naturist clubs: Fiveacres Country Club, Spielplatz, The Sun-Folk Society, Gardenia ( originally named Silverbirch ), Diogenes Sunlight Society ( also known as The Phoenix Recreational Society ), and The Suncampers.
He also made some attempts in poetry ; and Diogenes Laërtius relates, that, after sealing up a collection of his poems, he deposited them in the temple of Athena in his native city, Soli.
Very little is known about him as none of his works have survived, though he has been mentioned and discussed in detail by Photius ( in his Myriobiblion ) and Sextus Empiricus, and also to a lesser extent by Diogenes Laertius and Philo of Alexandria.
According to Diogenes Laërtius, Xenophanes wrote in hexameters and also composed elegies and iambics against Homer and Hesiod.
Diogenes was also responsible for publicly mocking Alexander the Great.
It seems likely that Diogenes was also enrolled into the banking business aiding his father.
Diogenes Laërtius, on the authority of Sotion and Panaetius, gives a long list of books whose authorship is ascribed to Aristippus, though he also says that Sosicrates of Rhodes states that he wrote nothing.
Diogenes Laërtius, on the authority of Sotion and Panaetius, provides a long list of books said to have been written by Aristippus, though he also says that Sosicrates stated that he wrote nothing.
He is also depicted as either the head or at least a senior operative of the British secret service, for which the Diogenes Club is a front.
* In Nobuhiro Watsuki's manga series Embalming-The Another Tale of Frankenstein -, Asuhit Richter goes to the Diogenes Club in London to meet one of the club's founders and his client " Mike Roft ", a play on Mycroft, who is also a high-standing government official.
She had also sworn on Constantine's deathbed not to marry again, and had even imprisoned and exiled Romanos Diogenes, who was suspected of aspiring to the throne.
It is prefaced by an address to her husband Romanos Diogenes, in which she describes the work as " a collection of genealogies of gods, heroes, and heroines, of their metamorphoses, and of the fables and stories respecting them found in the ancients ; containing also notices of various philosophers.
* The Diogenes Club was featured in the Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures novel All-Consuming Fire, a Doctor Who / Sherlock Holmes crossover novel, which also refers to Newman's character Beauregard.
Diogenes Laertius also records that Epicharmus ' father was the prominent physician Helothales, who moved the family to Megara, Sicily when Epicharmus was just a few months old.
Diogenes Laertius even goes so far as to claim that Chilon was also the first person who introduced the custom of joining the ephors to the kings as their counselors.
Diogenes Laertius also ascribes to him the inscription on the tomb of Midas, of which Homer was considered by others to have been the author:
Diogenes and tells
Diogenes Laërtius tells of other stories involving Xanthippe's supposed abusiveness, but he does not cite any source for them.
On one occasion Diogenes went with his head half-shaved into an entertainment of young men, as Metrocles tells us in his Chreiai, and so was beaten by them.
Diogenes Laërtius tells us that Hippasus believed that " there is a definite time which the changes in the universe take to complete, and that the universe is limited and ever in motion.
He must have resided at some time in Athens, since Diogenes Laërtius tells us ( vii. 5, 4 ) that he attacked the Stoic Cleanthes on the stage, and was hissed off by the audience.
Diogenes and us
The anecdotes which are told of him ( there are many in Diogenes Laërtius ,) by no means give us the notion of a person who was the mere slave of his passions, but rather of one who took a pride in extracting enjoyment from all circumstances of every kind, and in controlling adversity and prosperity alike.
Diogenes Laërtius gives us a list of some of the titles of the many dialogues and commentaries of Speusippus, which is of little help in determining their contents, and the fragments provided by other writers provide us with only a little extra.
Diogenes and Heraclitus
The main source for the life of Heraclitus is Diogenes Laërtius, although some have questioned the validity of his account as " a tissue of Hellenistic anecdotes, most of them obviously fabricated on the basis of statements in the preserved fragments.
" Diogenes said that Heraclitus flourished in the 69th Olympiad, 504-501 BCE.
Diogenes says that Heraclitus used to play knucklebones with the youths in the temple of Artemis and when asked to start making laws he refused saying that the constitution ( politeia ) was ponêra, which can mean either that it was fundamentally wrong or that he considered it toilsome.
With regard to education, Diogenes says that Heraclitus was " wondrous " ( thaumasios, which, as Plato explains in the Theaetetus and elsewhere, is the beginning of philosophy ) from childhood.
Diogenes relates that Sotion said he was a " hearer " of Xenophanes, which contradicts Heraclitus ' statement ( so says Diogenes ) that he had taught himself by questioning himself.
" Diogenes relates that as a boy Heraclitus had said he " knew nothing " but later claimed to " know everything.
Diogenes relates that Heraclitus had a poor opinion of human affairs.
Diogenes states that Heraclitus ' work was " a continuous treatise On Nature, but was divided into three discourses, one on the universe, another on politics, and a third on theology.
Timon of Phlius calls him " the riddler " ( ainiktēs ) according to Diogenes Laërtius, who had just explained that Heraclitus wrote his book " rather unclearly " ( asaphesteron ) so that only the " capable " should attempt it.
Diogenes Laërtius ascribes to Theophrastus the theory that Heraclitus did not complete some of his works because of melancholia.
Although Ionia was a centre of Western philosophy, the scholars it produced, including Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, Archelaus, and Diogenes of Apollonia, had such diverse viewpoints that it cannot be said to be a specific school of philosophy.
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