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Surely she means deface the political currency, I’ll head off to Athens to provoke the people there, challenge their values and way of life, and I’ll stir them up big time!”Once in Athens, Diogenes was drawn to Antisthenes, a philosopher of the day, and his ascetic teachings, known today as cynicism, a school of ancient Greek philosophy.Today, the word cynic conjures up images of grumpy old men, or pessimists, but back in the fifth century B.C, cynic meant something entirely different, and was used as an insult against Diogenes and his followers.No works of Diogenes exist today, as he believed his teachings were better understood through actions and conversation, rather than through the reading of books.The philosophy of Diogenes, cynicism, was to live a life of virtue, to avoid earthly pleasures, to live in poverty, as simply as possible and to achieve To bring about this state of simple happiness, Diogenes, insisted the masses, of which he had a low opinion, calling them ignorant, obedient sheep, who were corrupted by socialization, by conforming blindly to customs, laws and ideals, should break free from their chains of social norm, reject wealth, sex and power, and get rid of their possessions.Diogenes practiced what he preached, lived in a wine jar, and owned nothing.
Also, in spite of the cruelty he experienced initially, Diogenes became the student of Antisthenes. Diogenes of Sinope (Greek: Διογένης ὁ Σινωπεύς, Diogenēs ho Sinōpeus) was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy.
Destroying the established customs and values became the main motive of his life. He was usually involved in an argument with Plato.
During this period it was fortified by walls having the shape of an almost regular rectangle.
https://probaway.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/philosophers-squared-diogenes-of-sinope/ Diogenes was born on 412 BC in the Greek colony of Sinope on the south coast of the Black Sea. Sinop Turkey. Greek was the lingua franca of Anatolia from the conquests of Alexander the Great up to the invasion of the Seljuk Turks in the eleventh century AD.
Alexander then announced, “If I were not Alexander, then I should wish to be Diogenes”.
Sinope was in turn a prosperous Greek colony, one of the main centres of the Kingdom of Pontus and a rich Roman town (Iulia Felix). This aspect of the story is certified by the archaeological evidence as several defaced coins destroyed by a big chisel stamp were found at Sinope dated the middle of the 4th century BC, and other coins of the same time period bearing the name of Hicesias as the official who created them. Sinope. The Pontic king Mithridates The Great, an important adversary of Rome, was born in Sinope. All his writings were destroyed by time, but the details of his life is taken from the forms of anecdotes, specifically from Diogenes Laërtius’s book “Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers.”
https://theploughman.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/i-just-read-tomorrows-newspaper/ Sinop Turkey. In the first half of the first millennium BCE, ancient Greek city-states, most of which were maritime powers, began to look beyond Greece for land and resources, and so they founded colonies across the Mediterranean. There is no information on his early life except that his father’s name was Hicesias who was a banker by profession. Another strange act that Diogenes indulged in was wandering in broad daylight carrying a lamp. This attitude was laid in a great abhor for what he saw as the folly, pretense, vanity, self-deception, and artificiality of much human conduct.According to stories recited, there lies a glimpse of the logical regularity of his character.