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Diogenes and Sinope
* Diogenes of Sinope ( 400-325 BC )
He may have been the author of a book about Diogenes of Sinope.
One of the first nominalist critiques of Plato's realism was that of Diogenes of Sinope, who said " I've seen Plato's cups and table, but not his cupness and tableness.
* Diogenes of Sinope ( 412 – 323 BC ), Greek philosopher
* Diogenes of Sinope, Greek philosopher ( b. c. 412 BC )
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.
* 412 BC – Diogenes of Sinope, philosopher
Diogenes of Sinope, speaking in jest, related a myth of Pan learning masturbation from his father, Hermes, and teaching the habit to shepherds.
He moved to Athens where tradition says he became a pupil of Diogenes of Sinope ; the precise relationship between Crates and Diogenes is uncertain, but there is one apparent reference to Crates referring to himself as " a fellow-citizen of Diogenes, who defied all the plots of envy.
* Diogenes of Sinope ( 412 – 323 BC ), better known as Diogenes the Cynic or simply Diogenes, philosopher
* The Diogenes Club, named after Diogenes of Sinope, co-founded by Sherlock Holmes ' brother Mycroft
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.
Some scholars, drawing on the discovery of defaced coins from Sinope dating from the period 350-340 BCE, believe that Diogenes only moved to Athens after the death of Antisthenes, and it has been argued that the stories linking Antisthenes to Diogenes were invented by the Stoics in a later period in order to provide a succession linking Socrates to Zeno, via Antisthenes, Diogenes, and Crates.
It is also possible that Diogenes visited Athens and Antisthenes before his exile, and returned to Sinope.
* Cynicism: Antisthenes, Diogenes of Sinope, Crates of Thebes ( taught Zeno of Citium, founder of Stoicism )
Outstanding in the Hellenistic period were Epicurus, the philosopher of moderation ; Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism ; and Diogenes of Sinope, the famous Cynic.
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 "

Diogenes and major
Organized by his publisher Diogenes Verlag in 1982, the first major exhibition of 63 drawings by Fellini was held in Paris, Brussels, and the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York.
This is a story most often attributed to Diogenes of Sinope, one major contributor to the Cynic school of philosophy.

Diogenes and figure
Diogenes of Sinope was a controversial figure.

Diogenes and ancient
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.
Another ancient source is Diogenes of Oenoanda, who composed a large inscription at Oenoanda in Lycia.
Diogenes Laertius, after quoting a famous epigram by Cleobulus ( one of ancient Greece's ' seven sages ') in which a maiden sculptured on a tomb is imagined to proclaim her eternal vigilance, quotes Simonides commenting on it in a poem of his own: Stone is broken even by mortal hands.
In the ancient manuscripts of his work, he is invariably referred to as " Laertius Diogenes ," and this form of the name is repeated by Sopater, and the Suda.
The modern theory is that " Laertius " is a nickname, to distinguish him from the many other people called Diogenes in the ancient world, and derived from the Homeric epithet " Diogenes Laertiade ," used in addressing Odysseus.
* Diocles of Magnesia, Greek writer on ancient philosophers quoted many times by Diogenes Laertius
In an episode of In our time broadcast on Thu, 20 Oct 2005, 21: 30 on BBC Radio 4, Angie Hobbs, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Warwick ; Miriam Griffin, Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford ; and John Moles, Professor of Latin, University of Newcastle discussed with Melvyn Bragg the idea that Antisthenes and Diogenes in ancient Greece practiced a form of performance art and that they acquired the epithet of cynic which means " dog " due to Diogenes behaving repeatedly like a dog in his performances.
Variations on his Athenian origin and his deformity are found in numerous ancient sources, including Diogenes Laertius, who said that the Athenians regarded him as deranged, and Porphyry, who labelled him " one-eyed ", and Justin, who believed that he was sent to the Spartans by the Athenians as a deliberate insult.
Diogenes Laertius recorded that the ancient Egyptians dated their creation to their first god Hephaestus, who by interpretatio graeca was Ptah.
The first two comprise entirely his Syntagma philosophicum ; the third contains his critical writings on Epicurus, Aristotle, Descartes, Robert Fludd and Herbert of Cherbury, with some occasional pieces on certain problems of physics ; the fourth, his Institutio astronomica, and his Commentarii de rebus celestibus ; the fifth, his commentary on the tenth book of Diogenes Laërtius, the biographies of Epicurus, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Tycho Brahe, Nicolaus Copernicus, Georg von Peuerbach, and Regiomontanus, with some tracts on the value of ancient money, on the Roman calendar, and on the theory of music, with an appended large and prolix piece entitled Notitia ecclesiae Diniensis ; the sixth volume contains his correspondence.
Here Foucault discusses Diogenes ' antics in relation to the speaking of truth ( parrhesia ) in the ancient world.
In 1664 he published at London an edition of the Lives of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius that contains an unedited anonymous life of Aristotle ; this life was known as ' Vita Menagiana ' before the critical edition by Ingemar Düring, Aristotle in the ancient biographical tradition Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell 1957 ; reprinted New York, Garland, 1987, pp. 80 – 93 ) with the title ' Vita Hesychii ' ( the attribution to Hesychius of Miletus is controversial ).
Attribution did tend to occur at a later time, Reference to Thales was made by Proclus, and by Diogenes Laertius documenting Pamphila statement that the ancient
Among the most famous were Thargelia, a renowned Ionian hetaera of ancient times ; Aspasia, companion of Pericles ; Archeanassa, companion of Plato ; the famous Neaira ; Thaïs, a concubine of Ptolemy, who was one of the generals on the expeditions of Alexander the Great and later became king of Egypt ; Lais of Corinth, the famed beauty who lived during the Peloponnesian War ; Lais of Hyccara, a courtesan who is said to have provided her services to the philosopher Diogenes free of charge ; and the famously beautiful Phryne, the model and muse of the sculptor Praxiteles.
Diogenes of Sinope – depicted by Jean-Léon GérômeCynicism (), in its original form, refers to the beliefs of an ancient school of Greek philosophers known as the Cynics (, ).
Most of the information we have about Epicharmus comes from the writings of Athenaeus, Suda and Diogenes Laertius, but fragments and comments come up in a host of other ancient authors as well.
Diogenes Laertius ( VIII 78 ) records that Epicharmus was born in Astypalea, the ancient capital of Kos on the Bay of Kamari, near modern-day Kefalos.
The stereotype is very old: the ancient Greek biographer Diogenes Laërtius wrote that the philosopher Thales walked at night with his eyes focused on the heavens and, as a result, fell down a well.
The door wings are decorated with figures of ancient poets and philosophers ( including Diogenes, Euripides, Plato and Homer ).
Some ancient authors, as Diogenes Laërtius state that Aristotle assigned his pupils to prepare a monograph of 158 constitutions of Greek cities, including a constitution of Athens.
* Diogenes, ancient text browsing application including Lewis and Short
Though Clement of Alexandria, Sextus Empiricus, and Diogenes Laertius all quote the same passage from Timon, where Socrates is termed a laxoos or lithoxoos in ancient Greek, Timon's work is polemical and not a serious attempt to transmit literal, historical facts.

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