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Diogenes Sitting in His Tub by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1860) According to one story, [12] Diogenes went to the Oracle at Delphi to ask for her advice and was told that he should "deface the currency". Following the debacle in Sinope, Diogenes decided that the oracle meant that he should deface the political currency rather than actual coins.
Alexander is said to have expressed his admiration of Diogenes's conduct. Thus it is evident that Alexander was not entirely destitute of better feelings; but he was the slave of his insatiable ambition. In his biography of Alexander, Robin Lane Fox [11] sets the encounter in 336, the only time Alexander was in Corinth.
Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the Eminent Philosophers is the best source. μηδείς 18:56, 14 August 2010 (UTC) The "bored holes in the tub" bit sounds like it is based on the old idea you find in older books and pictures that Diogenes' tub was a wooden barrel, whereas in fact it was an earthenware tub.
Pages in category "Cultural depictions of Diogenes" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Diogenes Sitting in His Tub by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1860), Walters Art Museum Alexander also spends his time in Athens with his close friend and advisor Hephestion (who disapproves of his infatuation with Campaspe), and in conversing and consorting with the philosophers of the era – most notably with Diogenes the Cynic , whose famous tub is ...
Diogenes Sitting in His Tub (1860) by Jean-Léon Gérôme. There is little record of Cynicism in the 2nd or 1st centuries BC; Cicero (c. 50 BC), who was much interested in Greek philosophy, had little to say about Cynicism, except that "it is to be shunned; for it is opposed to modesty, without which there can be neither right nor honor."
The Statue of Diogenes (Turkish: Diyojen Heykeli) is a monument to the Ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope, who was born in Sinop, ancient Asia Minor, Turkey in about 412 BC. Sinop (then known as Sinope) is the birthplace of Diogenes in the 5th century BC. Sinop municipality decided to erect a statue of Diogenes.
Diogenes or On Tyranny (Ancient Greek: Διογένης ἢ περὶ τυραννίδος, romanized: Diogenēs e peri turannidos, Oration 6 in modern corpora) is a speech delivered by Dio Chrysostom between AD 82 and 96, arguing for the superiority of the cynic lifestyle, through a contrast between the life of Diogenes and that of the Persian king, the prototypical tyrant.