Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by ...

Diogenes of Sinope, better known as Diogenes the Cynic (c. 412-323 BCE), was a contemporary of Socrates' pupil Plato, whom Plato described as "a Socrates gone mad." After being exiled from his ...

Diogenes of Sinope, better known as Diogenes the Cynic (c. 412-323 BCE), was a contemporary of Socrates' pupil Plato, whom Plato described as "a Socrates gone mad." After being exiled from his ...

For Diogenes, self-denial was more ... history books are not written to commemorate the lives of those who war with themselves. ... Diogenes of Sinope (c. 404—323 B.C.E.) More references ...

Diogenes the Cynic (c. 412–323 BCE) was a contemporary of Plato, who once called him "a Socrates gone mad." After being exiled from his native Sinope for having defaced its coinage, Diogenes ...

The term "cynic" derives from Diogenes of Sinope or Diogenes the Cynic ('the Dog'). Diogenes (c.412-323 BCE) was a contemporary of Plato in Ancient Athens, whom Plato described as "a Socrates gone ...

In the fifth century B.C., Diogenes of Sinope, the son of a disreputable moneychanger, was thrown out of his hometown on charges of “defacing the currency.” He wandered west to Athens, moving ...

Diogenes of Sinope or Diogenes the Cynic (c. 412-323 BCE) was a contemporary of Socrates' pupil Plato, whom Plato described as ‘a Socrates gone mad'. Like Socrates and, to a lesser extent, Plato ...