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9781853995484

History of Cynicism From Diogenes to the Sixth Century A.D.

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    9781853995484

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    1853995487

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-03-31
  • Publisher: Bristol Classical Pr

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Summary

To the student of ancient philosophy Cynicism may seem little more than a debased version of the ethics of Socrates, which exaggerates his austerity to a fanatic asceticism, hardens his irony to sardonic laughter at the follies of mankind, and affords no parallel to his love of knowledge. Diogenes was 'Socrates gone mad'. On the other hand, for the student of ancient social history and thought from the 4thcentury BC to the close of antiquity, and even beyond, the mind-set of cynicism is still a constant or ever-recurring theme.

Table of Contents

Foreword Preface Introduction
Antistenes
No direct connection with Cynics
His ethics
Diogenes and his associates
Diogenes -- In Literary Translation --Life -- Thought
Onesicratus
Monimus
Crates -- Life -- Writings -- Crates and Hipparchia
Cynicism in the Third Century B.C.
Bion
Menippus
Cercidas
Teles
Cynic Educational Theory, etc
Cynicism and the Philosophical Schools in the Third Century
The Megarians
Zeno
Ariston
Hedonists
Epicureans
Timon
Cynic Influence on Hellenistic Literature
Cynicism in the Second and First Centuries B.C.
Demetrius
The 'Philosophic Opposition' in the First Century A.D.
Cynicism in the Second Century A.D.
General Character
Dio Chrysostom
Demonax
Oenomaus
Peregrinus
Minor Figures
Cynicism and the Philosophic Schools in the First and Second Centuries A.D.
Philo
Cynics and Stocis of the Roman Empire
Favorinus
Maximus
Cynicism from the Third to the Sixth Centuries A.D.
Julian and the Cynics
Maximus
Asterius
Sallustius
Epilogue
Appendices
Index
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