Diogenes of Sinope is undoubtedly the most well-known Cynic philosopher from antiquity.
Sources: Aelian, Aesop, Aulus Gellius, Apuleius, Athenaeus, Augustine, Basil of Caesarea, Clement, Cicero, Dio Chrysostom, Diogenes Laertius, Epictetus, Greek Anthology, Julian, Lucian, Marcus Aurelius, Origen, Philostratus, Plutarch, Seneca, Socrates Scholasticus, Strabo, Tertullian The text is meant to be a Handbook of Source Material for study..
The objective is to provide as much background information on the excerpts as possible.
The excerpts are a little longer than given in most similar books.
Using actual primary sources, this book allows the student and the scholar to use open-Source texts to reconstruct the personhood of Diogenes of Sinope.
We possess a faint idea of who the man was, and this book is meant to provide the raw Material for the study of Diogenes and how his Life and legacy shifted throughout the centuries.
Over time, Diogenes\' legacy became intermingled with legends about his Life which makes it difficult for the scholar to reconstruct who exactly the real Diogenes was.
We possess no direct writings from Diogenes himself, thus his legacy has been left for others to construct and discuss over the centuries.
Diogenes of Sinope is undoubtedly the most well-known Cynic philosopher from antiquity
