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  Diogenes of Sinope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Diogenes, "the Cynic," Greek philosopher, was born at Sinope about 412 BC (according to other sources 399 BC), and died in 323 at Corinth, according to Diogenes Laërtius, on the day on which Alexander the Great died at Babylon.
Diogenes is the first person known to have thought, and said, "I am a citizen of the whole world," rather than of any particular city or state.
Diogenes syndrome is a behavioral disorder of the elderly characterized by acute illness and extreme self-neglect - The Lancet.
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 Diogenes Laertius [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Diogenes Laertius, native of Laerte in Cilicia, was a biographer of ancient Greek philosophers.
Diogenes is generally as reliable as whatever source he happens to be copying from at that moment.
Especially when Diogenes is setting down amusing or scandalous stories about the lives and deaths of various philosophers which are supposed to serve as fitting illustrations of their thought, the reader should be wary.
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 Diogenes
The most renowned of these is Diogenes of Sinope, the philosopher who walked throughout Athens carrying a lantern in daylight, searching for an honest man. The other is Diogenes Laertius, who lived in the 3rd Century CE and was an historian of various teachers of philosophy, including the teachings and customs of the Druids.
Diogenes calmly bore the rebuke and said, "Strike me, Antisthenes, but you will never find a stick sufficiently hard to remove me from your presence, while you speak anything worth hearing." The philosopher was so much pleased with this reply that he at once admitted him among his scholars.
Diogenes probably was visited by Alexander, when the latter held the general assembly of the Greeks at Corinth, and was received by him with rudeness and incivility, which may have given rise to the whole story.
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 Diogenes Laertius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Diogenes Laërtius, the biographer of the Greek philosophers, is supposed by some to have received his surname from the town of Laerte in Cilicia, and by others from the Roman family of the Laërtii.
In addition to the Lives, Diogenes was the author of a work in verse on famous men, in various metres.
Diogenes Laertius: the Manuscripts of "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosphers" (notes on the publication history of Diogenes Laertius, from R.D. Hicks' edition of the "Lives", 1925)
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 Diogenes of Sinope 412 - 323 - by Diogenes Laertius
Theother, more notorious, Diogenes was Diogenes of Sinope who was a famous Cynic philosopher living during the time of Plato (the 4th century BC).
Diogenes was a native of Sinope, son of Hicesius, a banker.
Diogenes is said to have been nearly ninety years old when he died.
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 Hipparchia [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Diogenes Laertius claims that Hipparchia was so eager to marry Crates that she threatened to kill herself rather than live in any other way.
According to Diogenes Laertius, Theodorus quoted a verse from Euripides’ Bacchae, asking if this is she “abandoning the warp and woof and the shuttle” (like Agave returning home from the “hunt” with the head of her son Pentheus).
Diogenes Laertius says that since Theodorus “had no reply wherefore to meet the argument,” he “tried to strip her of her cloak.
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 Notes on Diogenes Laertius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Diogenes Laertius is the author of the only work to survive from antiquity which describes the history of philosophy from its inception to the beginnings of the Common Era, called The Lives of the Philosophers.
On P. 334, Diogenes Laertius says that Socrates offered 25 drachmae as a fine at his trial, and then suggested free meals at the Prytaneum.
Diogenes Laertius does not indicate that there is any difference between Plato and Xenophon and later sources such as Justus of Tiberias and Eubulides.
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Now voice is a percussion of the air; or, as Diogenes the Babylonian, defines it, in his essay on the Voice, a sensation peculiar to the hearing.
The voice of a beast is a mere percussion of the air by some impetus: but the voice of a man is articulate, and is emitted by intellect, as Diogenes lays it down, and is not brought to perfection in a shorter period than fourteen years.
Diogenes, accordingly, says expressly that the chief good is to act according to sound reason in our selection of things according to our nature.
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 DIOGENES LAERTIUS - LoveToKnow Article on DIOGENES LAERTIUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
(or LAllRTIUS DIOGENES), the biographer of the Greek philosophers, is supposed by some to have received his surname from the town of Laerte in Ciicia, and by others from the Roman family of the Lartii.
From,the statements of Burlaeus (Walter Burley, a 14th-Century monk) in his De vita el moribus philosophorum the text of Diogenes seems to have been much fuller than that which we now possess.
In addition to the Lives, Diogenes was the author of awork in verse on famous men, in various metres.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DI/DIOGENES_LAERTIUS.htm   (388 words)

  
 Diogenes Laërtius - The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers - Translated by C. D. Yonge (London: George Bell ...
Diogenes was a native of Sinope, the son of Tresius, a money-changer.
But Eubulides, in his essay on Diogenes, says, that it was Diogenes himself who did this, and that he was banished with his father.
Once a man came to him, and wished to study philosophy [230] as his pupil; and he gave him a saperda [The saperda was the corancinus (a kind of fish) when salted.] and made him follow him.
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 Menedemus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Though of noble birth, he worked as builder and tentmaker until he was sent with a military expedition to Megara, where, according to Diogenes Laertius, he heard Plato and resolved to devote himself to philosophy.
It is more likely that he heard one of Plato's followers, inasmuch as Plato died when he was only four years old, if the above dates are correct.
Diogenes says that he left no writings, and the Eretrian school disappeared after a short and unobtrusive existence.
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 Ancient History Sourcebook: Diogenes Laërtius: The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers: Book VI: The Cynics
He was the original cause of the apathy of Diogenes, and the temperance of Crates, and the patience of Zeno, having himself, as it were, laid the foundations of the city which they afterwards built.
And this was his dress: a tunic of a dark colour reaching to his feet, and a purple girdle round his waist, an Arcadian hat on his head with the twelve signs of the zodiac embroidered on it, tragic buskins, a preposterously long beard, and an ashen staff in his hand.
Accordingly, Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a clock; "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper." And once when a man made an exhibition.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1022 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
These considerations, with others, are sufficient to banish this anecdote, to­gether with that of the tub, from the domain of history; and, considering what rich materials so peculiar a person as Diogenes must have afforded for amusing stories, we need not wonder if a few have come down to us of somewhat doubtful genu­ineness.
With regard to the philosophy of Diogenes there is little to say, as he was utterly without any sci­ entific object whatever.
The surname, Laertius, was derived according to some from the Roman family which bore the cog­nomen Laertius, and one of the members of which is supposed to have been the patron of an ancestor of Diogenes.
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 Birth and death of Diogenes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Diogenes Laertius informs us that he was already an aged man in the 113th Olympiad (324 — 321 B.C), and elsewhere notes that he was nearly ninety years old at the time of his death.
According to Demetrius of Magnesia and Suidas, his death occurred on the same year of Alexander ‘s death in Babylon (423 B.C), and plutarch calls attention to the even greater coincidence that Diogenes and Alexander died on the very same day, witch is also reported by Diogenes Laertius.
If this report is historically correct, there should be no reason for not pushing back the time of his birth to the year suggested by Diogenes Laertius, that is 413 B.C, for then Diogenes would have been a middle age man when the famous defacement of the coinage might have taken place.
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 Ref: Hellenist and Roman Age (325 BC - 450 AD) By Miles Hodges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Diogenes, who was a contemporary of Plato and Aristotle, laid out an important part of the Hellenistic world-view with his Cynicism.
Diogenes noted that animals, such as a dog, live quite contented lives without having to have the various material and psychological adornments of civilization that we think are so necessary for life.
Crates was one of Diogenes' students who gave away his fortune in order to follow the simple ways of his teacher--in order to help others free themselves from the bondage to the kind of materialism that gripped at Greek society in his days.
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 Diogenes --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He is credited by some with originating the Cynic way of life, but he himself acknowledges an indebtedness to Antisthenes, by whose numerous writings he was probably influenced.
Diogenes studied in Athens under Chrysippus, the principal systematizer of Stoic philosophy, and succeeded Zeno of Tarsus as head of the Stoic school there.
Diogenes Laertius, who lived in the 3rd century, wrote Lives, Teachings, and Sayings of Famous...
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 DIOGENES LAERTIUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
DIOGENES LAERTIUS, author of a biographically arranged history of Greek philosophy in ten books that also deals with the Persian Magi, especially in the first book on the origins of philosophy.
Of his life nothing is recorded, but according to the internal evidence in his work he must have lived in the 3rd century C.E. Diogenes Laertius gathered his material from (lost) second- or third-hand sources without citing the chain of tradition completely.
Elsewhere he lays great stress on the relations of prominent philosophers to the Magians: a Magian is said to have foretold to Socrates his death (2.45); Plato, interested in getting into touch with them, is said to have been prevented from doing so by war (3.7); a Persian Mithridates is mentioned as Plato's pupil (3.25).
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 Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Lives of Eminent Philosophers (Volume 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Diogenes Lartius' Lives of the Philosophers is a flawed work by an unsinspired thinker and poetaster.
His work is, however, indispensable to the student of ancient western thought and writing, as his quotations of many earlier philosophers, poets, and miscellaneous writers, whose works have perished, have left a large body of fragments for the historian to collect and analyze.
The organization of Diogenes' work into successions of philosophers and schools of thought provided the foundation for the subsequent organization of the history of ancient philosophy.
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 Diogenes Laertius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Además de las vidas, Diogenes era el autor de un trabajo en verso en hombres famosos, en varios metros.
Diogenes Laertius: Vidas de ISBN eminente 0674992040 de los filósofos
Diogenes Laertius: los manuscritos "de las vidas y de las opiniones de Philosphers eminente" (las notas sobre la historia de la publicación de Diogenes Laertius, de la edición de R.D. Hicks del "viven", 1925)
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 March 05 GVFSUP eZine Zorbaesque Diogenes Laertius
Diogenes was listening to what they were thinking and talking about, and he said, "Don't be worried.
But these three thieves could not say to Diogenes, "Please stand on the platform." He jumped up himself, and what he said from the platform is something to be remembered.
Diogenes went in the chariot of the rich man, and the rich man certainly behaved as if he was the slave and Diogenes was the master.
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 Alibris: Laertius Diogenes
Diogenes Laertius, author of a work on Greek philosophy, lived probably in the earlier half of the 3rd century, his ancestry and birthplace being unknown.
This rich compendium on the lives and doctrines of the ancient philosophers ranges over three centuries, from Thales to Epicurus (to whom Diogenes Laertius devotes the whole last book), portraying 45 important figures.
The information has been carefully and industriously compiled from hundreds of sources and is enriched by numerous quotations.
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 Diogenes Laertius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Again, living virtuously is equivalent to living in accordance with experience of the actual course of nature, as Chrysippus says in the first book of his De finibus; for our individual natures are parts of the nature of the whole universe.
Diogenes then expressly declares the end to be to act with good reason in the selection of what is natural.
Although this translation of Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the Eminent Philosophers is in the public domain, the specific electronic form of the text is copyright.
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 LIFE OF CRATES - Diogenes Laërtius - : The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
And in the summer he’d a shaggy gown, o inure himself to hardship: in the winter He wore mere rags.
But Diodes says that it was Diogenes who persuaded him to discard all his estate and his flocks, and to throw his money into the sea; and he says further, that the house of Crates was destroyed by Alexander, and that of Hipparchia under Philip.
And he would very frequently drive away with his staff those of his relations who came after him, and endeavoured to dissuade him from his design; and he remained immoveable.
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 Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers: Euclides, translated by C.D. Yonge
Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers: Euclides, translated by C.D. Yonge
BY DIOGENES LAERTIUS, TRANSLATED BY C.D. EUCLIDES was a native of Megara on the Isthmus, or of Gela, according to some writers, whose statement is mentioned by Alexander in his Successions.
One of the successors of Euclides was Icthyas, the son of Metellus, a man of great eminence, to whom Diogenes the Cynic addressed a dialogue.
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 Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers
As regards women he will submit to the restrictions imposed by the law, as Diogenes says in his epitome of Epicurus' ethical doctrines.
But even when he has lost his sight, he will not withdraw himself from life: this is stated in the same book.
And we choose the virtues too on account of pleasure and not for their own sake, as we take medicine for the sake of health.
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 Diogenes
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