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Diogenes (/ d aɪ ˈ ɒ dʒ ɪ n iː z / dy-OJ-in-eez; Ancient Greek: Διογένης, romanized: Diogénēs [di.oɡénɛːs]), also known as Diogenes the Cynic (Διογένης ὁ Κυνικός, Diogénēs ho Kynikós) or Diogenes of Sinope, was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynicism.
Diogenes requests that Alexander return the sunshine to him, it being something that Alexander cannot give to him in the first place. [4] [22] Diogenes' answer circulated as an aphorism in western Britain in the early Middle Ages, but it does not seem to have been understood or else had become completely divorced from the story.
Behold the Man is a existentialist science fiction novel by British writer Michael Moorcock.It originally appeared as a novella in a 1966 issue of New Worlds magazine; later, Moorcock produced an expanded version that was first published in 1969 by Allison & Busby [1] (one of the first books published by the company). [2]
The story of Cynicism traditionally begins with Antisthenes (c. 445–365 BC), [32] [33] who was an older contemporary of Plato and a pupil of Socrates. About 25 years his junior, Antisthenes was one of the most important of Socrates' disciples. [ 34 ]
The following stories – all written by Newman – feature Jeperson in a central role. All appear in the Man From the Diogenes Club collection. "The End of the Pier Show": When members of a white power skinhead gang he is investigating undercover are brutally slaughtered by twisted apparitions of Nazi leaders on a disused seaside pier, D.C. Fred Regent meets Richard Jeperson and Vanessa as ...
The movie shows him at his desk pounding out a saga of thugs and drugs and dysfunction so hackneyed that it’s practically a parody. Not altogether to his surprise, his agent (John Ortiz) tells ...
Ecce Homo, Caravaggio, 1605. Ecce homo (/ ˈ ɛ k s i ˈ h oʊ m oʊ /, Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈettʃe ˈomo], Classical Latin: [ˈɛkkɛ ˈhɔmoː]; "behold the man") are the Latin words used by Pontius Pilate in the Vulgate translation of the Gospel of John, when he presents a scourged Jesus, bound and crowned with thorns, to a hostile crowd shortly before his crucifixion (John 19:5).
Diogenes or On Virtue (Ancient Greek: Διογένης ἢ περὶ ἀρετῆς, romanized: Diogenēs e peri aretēs, Oration 8 in modern corpora) is a speech delivered by Dio Chrysostom between AD 82 and 96, [1] which is presented as a speech delivered by the Cynic philosopher Diogenes of Sinope at the Isthmian Games.