Diogenes the Cynic: Sayings and Anecdotes with Other Popular Moralists

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Diogenes the Cynic: Sayings and Anecdotes with Other Popular MoralistsDiogenes the Cynic is best remembered today for having lived in a storage jar, and walking the streets with a lamp in daylight, looking for an honest man. Such stories formed part of a rich tradition of sayings and anecdotes; his biting wit and eccentric behaviour were legendary, and it was by means of these oft repeated and embellished aphorisms that his moral teachings were transmitted. He scorned the conventions of civilized life, and his ascetic

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It opens a window on to a world of ancient education and scholarship which can seem rather alien to those brought up in the highly sophisticated world of modern literary theory and criticism

Theseus is bold

and conventions

social and political revolution

including Captain Drakos

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Juvenal's fourth book of Satires consists of three poems which are all concerned with contentment in various forms

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Catilina a psychopath and Clodius an ambitious playboy

Basil and Augustine are juxtaposed with Phalaris

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