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    regarded him as the founder of Cynic philosophy. Antisthenes was born c. 446 BCE, the son of Antisthenes, an Athenian. His mother was thought to have been...
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    begins with Antisthenes (c. 445–365 BC), who was an older contemporary of Plato and a pupil of Socrates. About 25 years his junior, Antisthenes was one of...
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    by the ascetic teaching of Antisthenes, a student of Socrates. When Diogenes asked Antisthenes to mentor him, Antisthenes ignored him and reportedly "eventually...
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  • mentions an Antisthenes who wrote a work called Meleagris, of which the third book is quoted; and Pliny the Elder speaks of an Antisthenes who wrote on...
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  • Antisthenes (Greek: Ἀντισθένης) was the name of several people in the time of Ancient Greece: Antisthenes of Athens, 445-365 BCE, pupil of Socrates and...
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    nature. Diogenes Laertius also lists an otherwise historically obscure Antisthenes who wrote a commentary on Heraclitus. The Pythagorean and comic writer...
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    this act Socrates addresses Antisthenes, saying that manliness (andreia) is teachable even to women (2.12). Antisthenes then remarked that the Syracusan...
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  • Antisthenes of Sparta was a Spartan admiral in the Peloponnesian war. Antisthenes was deployed in 412 BCE, as the commander of a squadron, to the coast...
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    (2015). Antisthenes of Athens: Texts, Translations, and Commentary. University of Michigan Press. p. 20. Prince 2015, pp. 518–522 (Antisthenes' literary...
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  • Antisthenes (Ancient Greek: Ἀντισθένης) was a citizen of ancient Rome from Agrigentum. He was mentioned by Diodorus Siculus as an instance of the immense...
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    by as much as 40 years. In Xenophon's Symposium, she is described by Antisthenes as "the most difficult, harshest, painful, ill-tempered" wife; this characterisation...
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    also four sources extant in fragmentary states: Aeschines of Sphettus, Antisthenes, Euclid of Megara, and Phaedo of Elis. In addition, there are two satirical...
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  • ascribed to Socrates and Plato, forming the foundation of Aristotelianism. Antisthenes founded the school that would come to be known as Cynicism and accused...
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    ancient authors who wrote about Socrates were Aeschines of Sphettus, Antisthenes, Aristippus, Bryson, Cebes, Crito, Euclid of Megara, Phaedo and Aristotle...
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    Socratic problem Socratic questioning Pupils Plato Xenophon Aeschines Antisthenes Aristippus Related topics Academic skepticism Aristotelianism Bibliography...
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  • Antisthenes and Aristippus, and even partakes in the exchange. However, these letters are later Roman creations. Within the Heracles of Antisthenes,...
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    Socratic problem Socratic questioning Pupils Plato Xenophon Aeschines Antisthenes Aristippus Related topics Academic skepticism Aristotelianism Bibliography...
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    Socratic problem Socratic questioning Pupils Plato Xenophon Aeschines Antisthenes Aristippus Related topics Academic skepticism Aristotelianism Bibliography...
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    Socratic problem Socratic questioning Pupils Plato Xenophon Aeschines Antisthenes Aristippus Related topics Academic skepticism Aristotelianism Bibliography...
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    dialogues by Aeschines Socraticus and Antisthenes). Purportedly based on his own personal experience, Antisthenes described Alcibiades's extraordinary...
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    philosophy, also originating in Greece, is defined by names such as Antisthenes (cynicism), Zeno of Citium (stoicism) and Plotinus (Neoplatonism). The...
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    Poets Seven Sages Writers Philosophers Anaxagoras Anaximander Anaximenes Antisthenes Aristotle Democritus Diogenes of Sinope Empedocles Epicurus Gorgias Heraclitus...
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  • Catalina Station C. W. Hergenrother  · 19 km MPC · JPL 6614 Antisthenes 6530 P-L Antisthenes September 24, 1960 Palomar PLS  · 9.2 km MPC · JPL 6615 Plutarchos...
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    Hippodochus Eurystratus Archemolus Ithacus Peisenor Hyperenor Pheroetes Antisthenes Cerberus Perimedes Cynnus Thriasus Eteoneus Clytius Prothous Lycaethus...
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  • Agatharchides Agathocles (writers) Alexander Polyhistor Anticlides Antipater Antisthenes of Rhodes Aratus of Sicyon Artapanus of Alexandria Berossus Callixenus...
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  • Cynic Antisthenes Diogenes Crates Menippus more... Cyrenaic Aristippus Aristippus the Younger Theodorus the Atheist Hegesias of Cyrene Anniceris more...
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    rendered famous by association with a celebrated school of philosophy. Antisthenes founded a school at the Cynosarges, from which some say the name Cynic...
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  • Socratic problem Socratic questioning Pupils Plato Xenophon Aeschines Antisthenes Aristippus Related topics Academic skepticism Aristotelianism Bibliography...
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  • Cynic Antisthenes Diogenes Crates Menippus more... Cyrenaic Aristippus Aristippus the Younger Theodorus the Atheist Hegesias of Cyrene Anniceris more...
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