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Diogenes The Cynic

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ISBN 10: 0199589240 ISBN 13: 9780199589241

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 2012

Riassunto

'many men compete in digging and kicking but no one at all in the pursuit of human excellence.'

Diogenes the Cynic is best remembered today for having lived in a storage-jar, and walking the streets with a lamp in daylight, looking for an honest man. Such stories formed part of a rich tradition of sayings and anecdotes; his biting wit and eccentric behaviour were legendary, and it was by means of these oft-repeated and embellished aphorisms that his moral teachings were transmitted. He scorned the conventions of civilized life, and his ascetic lifestyle and caustic opinions gave expression to the Cynic philosophy that in turn influenced Stoicism.

This unique edition also covers Diogenes' immediate successors, such as Crates, his wife Hipparchia, and the witty moral preacher Bion. The contrasting teachings of the Cyrenaic school, founded by Aristippos, a pleasure-loving friend of Socrates, complete the volume, together with a selection of apocryphal letters. An ideal compendium of Socratic moral philosophy, this entertaining volume opens a window on to some surprisingly modern attitudes.
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L'autore

Robin Hard has translated Apollodorus' Library of Greek Mythology and Marcus Aurelius' Meditations for Oxford World's Classics. He is the author of the Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology.

Contenuti

• Diogenes and the Early Cynics
• A Humorous Portrait of Diogenes and Aristippos
• Diogenes' Conversion to the Ascetic Life
• The Sage as Beggar
• Self-Characterization
• A Short-cut to Philosophy
• The World of Illusion
• Religion and Superstition
• Politicians and Rulers
• The Sale and Enslavement of Diogenes
• Moralistic and Traditional
• Diogenes as Wit
• Old Age and Death
• Immediate Followers of Diogenes
• Sayings and Anecdotes of Crates
• The Followers of Crates
• Postscript: Borysthenes of Bion
• Antisthenes as Forerunner of Cynicism
• Aristippos and the Cyrenaics
• Aristippos of Cyrene
• The Cyrenaic School under the Younger Aristippos
• The Other Cyrenaics
• Apocryphal Letters
• Selections from the Cynic Letters
• Correspondence of Aristippos

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199589240
• ISBN 13: 9780199589241
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304