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Traces of Cynic monotheism in the early Roman Empire. Acta Classica (1/1/2008)
...Antisthenic roots of Cynicism. (6) Antisthenes, the late 5th/early 4th century Socratic...antithesis. As reported by Philodemus, Antisthenes claimed in his Physics that there are...with those who enlist with Diogenes, Antisthenes, and Crates and are posted under the...

Phronesis: Vol. 50, No. 3, July 2005.(Character overview) The Review of Metaphysics (12/1/2005)
...most important disciples of Socrates (Antisthenes, Plato, Xenophon) rehabilitate the...The word polutropia is ambiguous: for Antisthenes, it means either "diversity of styles...hero, Achilles. However, whereas Antisthenes tries to clarify these different meanings...

Plato writes on the dangers of writing. International Journal of Humanities and Peace (1/1/2006)
Antisthenes, a student of Socrates, had a friend who complained that he lost his notes (hypomenmata). To this Antisthenes countered, "You should have inscribed them in your mind (psyche) and not on paper." (quoted in Thomas 1989, 33...

The needle's eye.(The Greek Praise of Poverty: Origins of Ancient Cynicism)(Book review) First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (12/1/2006)
...the fifth century, and his forerunner and possible teacher Antisthenes (who has direct ties to Socrates) is born years before...Antiquity and Its Legacy, and new studies of Diogenes and Antisthenes by Luis Navia relate Cynicism's reflection of Greek culture...

Dwelling in the land of the free and the home of the disillusioned. The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL) (9/30/2003)
...it has been around since at least 400 B.C., when a disillusioned Greek philosopher named Antisthenes founded the cynicism "movement." Antisthenes despised life so much he recommended suicide _ yet, curiously, failed to take his own advice...

Crossword The Beacon News - Aurora (IL) (9/11/2011)
...known as love-in-idleness 79 French school 80 “___ my case!†81 “Button your lip!†83 Antisthenes, notably? 88 Veronese masterpiece “The Feast in the House of ___†91 ___ Canals 94 Birthplace of the...

The Cynics. The Economist (US) (5/17/1997)
...disapprovingly put it. Cynicism started out innocently enough as a simplistic attempt to emulate the ways of Socrates. Antisthenes, who was with the great man when he drank his hemlock, believed that the only things that mattered in life were virtuous...

Artist and the tramp; Mummified body found hidden in painter's cupboard after 18-year saga. Daily Mail (London) (10/12/2002)
...philosophy after his father Icesias, a banker, was forced to leave the country for debasing the public coin. He became a pupil of Antisthenes, who said that true happiness is not reliant on external things such as material wealth or power.

Diogenes the Cynic in the Dialogues of the Dead of Thomas Brown, Lord Lyttelton, and William Blake.(Critical essay) Texas Studies in Literature and Language (6/22/2006)
...intellectual satire. (1) Lucian's Dialogues featured not only Diogenes, but other Cynics such as Menippus, Crates, and Antisthenes, inclusions which only underscored the emblematic function of the Cynic philosopher in this newly invented genre. The intimate...

Florida fertile ground for scams The Herald News - Joliet (IL) (7/8/2007)
...many reasons for my moderate success as an investment professional is that I'm as cynical as Diogenes and as skeptical as Antisthenes. Assuming you are a highly intelligent and knowledgeable investor (because you read my column) I'm comfortable suggesting...

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