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Alexander und Diogenes by Lovis Corinth, 1894, at the Graphische Sammlung Albertina Alexander and Diogenes, lithograph illustration by Louis Loeb in Century Magazine, 1898. According to legend, Alexander the Great came to visit the philosopher Diogenes of Sinope. Alexander wanted to fulfill a wish for Diogenes and asked him what he desired. [5]
The accounts of Plutarch and Diogenes Laërtius recount that they exchanged only a few words: while Diogenes was relaxing in the morning sunlight, Alexander, thrilled to meet the famous philosopher, asked if there was any favour he might do for him. Diogenes replied, "Yes, stand out of my sunlight."
Athens sued for peace and Alexander pardoned the rebels. The famous encounter between Alexander and Diogenes the Cynic occurred during Alexander's stay in Corinth. When Alexander asked Diogenes what he could do for him, the philosopher disdainfully asked Alexander to stand a little to the side, as he was blocking the sunlight. [57]
As a philosopher, Alexander wrote Successions of Philosophers, mentioned several times by Diogenes Laërtius in his Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers. [5] None of Alexander's works survive as such: only quotations and paraphrases are to be found, largely in the works of Diogenes Laertius.
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He was a disciple of Diogenes of Sinope, the Cynic philosopher. [2] Diogenes Laërtius also calls him "Onesicritus of Aegina", [3] and says that he came to Athens because his two adult sons, Androsthenes and Philiscus, were attracted to the philosophy of Diogenes the Cynic, whence Onesicritus also became an ardent disciple. If so, he must have ...