Diogenes the Cynic (c. 412–323 BCE) was a contemporary of Plato, who once called him "a Socrates gone mad." After being exiled from his native Sinope for having defaced its coinage, Diogenes moved to ...
Diogenes of Sinope, better known as Diogenes the Cynic (c. 412-323 BCE), was a contemporary of Socrates' pupil Plato, whom Plato described as "a Socrates gone mad." After being exiled from his native ...
Classicist Kuin (Lucian’s Laughing Gods) offers a enthralling intellectual history of Diogenes, the founder of Cynicism—a word derived from the Greek for “dog,” the moniker bestowed on Diogenes by ...