Difference between revisions of "Diogenes"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
(another image) |
m (thumb) |
||
| Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
[[Image:Monsiau Alexander and Diogenes.jpg|thumb|left|[[Nicholas Monsiau]], Alexander and Diogenes.]] | [[Image:Monsiau Alexander and Diogenes.jpg|thumb|left|[[Nicholas Monsiau]], Alexander and Diogenes.]] | ||
| − | [[Image:Nb pinacoteca waterhouse diogenes.jpg|Diogenes visited at home|right]] | + | [[Image:Nb pinacoteca waterhouse diogenes.jpg|thumb|Diogenes visited at home|right]] |
{{Clear}} | {{Clear}} | ||
Revision as of 02:36, February 25, 2009
Diogenes (400-325 B.C.) was a Greek philosopher who became the most famous of the Cynics. In adherence to his philosophy, Diogenes lived in severe poverty. His teacher was Antisthenes.
"Diogenes is depicted in art carrying a lantern with which he is said to have vainly hunted by daylight for an honest man."[1]
Note: Another Greek, Diogenes Laertius (ca. 200-250 AD), wrote perhaps around 240 AD about the life of famous Greek philosophers (Lives and Maxims of Those who Have Distinguished themselves in Philosophy and the Doctrines of Each Sect, in ten books).
Nicholas Monsiau, Alexander and Diogenes.
