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Cover Title Page Contents About the Author Abbreviations Introduction

CYNIC ETHICS SOURCES KEY CYNIC THEMES INDIVIDUAL CYNICS THE LEGACY OF CYNICISM NOTES

Further Reading A Note on the Translation The Cynic Philosophers

[Lucian], The Cynic

1 KYNIKOS – ‘The Cynic’ by [Lucian]

Summary of Cynic Doctrines

2 (DL 6. 103–5)

Antisthenes

3 (DL 6. 1–19) 4 5 The Speech of Ajax 6 The Speech of Odysseus

Diogenes

7 Early life before exile (DL 6. 20–21) 8 (Suid. 334) 9 (DL 6. 56) 10 (DL 6. 71) 11 Association with Alexander the Great (Plutarch, On the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander 331F–332C) 12 (Plutarch, Life of Alexander 671D–E) 13 (Cicero, TD 5. 92) 14 (DL 6. 60) 15 (Seneca, Benef. 5. 6. 1) 16 (Juvenal, Satire 14. 308–12) 17 Relations with Plato (DL 6. 25–6) 18 (DL 6. 58) 19 (DL 6. 41) 20 (DL 6. 40) 21 (DL 6. 54) 22 ‘Looking for a man’ (DL 6. 41) 23 (DL 6. 60) 24 Capture by pirates, sale and term of enslavement (DL 6. 74–5) 25 (DL 6. 29–31) 26 (Epictetus 4. 1. 114–18) 27 (Philo, All Good Men Are Free 121–3) 28 Old age and death (DL 6. 79) 29 (Plutarch, On the Ethics of Eating Meat 995 C–D) 30 (DL 6. 76–9) 31 Writings (DL 6. 80) 32 (DL 6. 72–3) 33 (Philodemus, On the Stoics (part) [= SSR 5 B 126, lines 20–36]) 34 (Philodemus, On the Stoics (part) [= SSR 5 B 126, lines 46–85]) 35 On the source and significance of the epithet ‘dog’ (DL 6. 60) 36 (DL 6. 61) 37 (DL 6. 69) 38 (Stobaeus 3. 13. 44) 39 (Themistius, On Virtue, p. 44, (ed. Sachau)) 40 (Eudocia, Violarium (ed. Flach) 332, pp. 239, line 11–240, line 9) 41 Diogenes’ dress and frugal habits (Anth. Pal. 16. 333 (Antiphilus of Byzantium)) 42 (DL 6. 37) 43 (DL 6. 22–3) 44 (DL 6. 38) 45 (DL 6. 35) 46 (DL 6. 40) 47 (DL 6. 54) 48 (DL 6. 49) 49 Diogenes’ views on philosophy and training (DL 6. 63) 50 (DL 6. 64) 51 (DL 6. 24) 52 (DL 6. 104) 53 (DL 6. 70–71) 54 On Society (DL 6. 37) 55 (DL 6. 72) 56 (DL 6. 63) 57 (DL 6. 50) 58 Diogenes’ shamelessness and freedom of speech (DL 6. 69) 59 (DL 6. 24) 60 (DL 6. 32) 61 (DL 6. 34) 62 (DL 6. 44) 63 (DL 6. 45) 64 (DL 6. 46) 65 (DL 6. 43) 66 Various judgements on Diogenes and the Cynics (DL 10. 8, 119) 67 (Simplic., comm. in Epict. enchir. 2) 68 (Simplic., comm. in Epict. enchir. 9) 69 (Cicero, De off. I. 148) 70 (Sen., Ad Lucil. epist. 3. 8) 71 (Tatian, Orat. ad Graec. 25. 1) 72 (Lactantius, Inst. epit. 34. 4–6) 73 (Augustine, The City of God 14. 20) 74 (Joann. Chrysost. In Epist. I ad Corinth. homil. 35. 4) 75 (Diogenes, letter 30, Hercher) 76 (Diogenes, letter 33, Hercher) 77 (Diogenes, letter 38, Hercher) 78 (Diogenes, letter 47, Hercher)

Crates and Hipparchia(fl. 326 BC)

79 (DL 6. 85) 80 (DL 6. 87) 81 (DL 6. 87–9) 82 (Apuleius, Florida) 83 (Apuleius, Florida) 84 (DL 6. 85) 85 (DL 6. 86) 86 (Plutarch, How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend 69 C–D) 87 (DL 7. 2–4) 88 ([Demetrius of Phalerum], On Style 170) 89 (DL 6. 96–8) 90 (Anth. Pal. 7. 413, Antipater of Sidon) 91 (Letter 2, Hercher) 92 (Letter 4, Hercher) 93 (Letter 5, Hercher) 94 (Letter 16, Hercher) 95 (Letter 19, Hercher) 96 (Letter 28, Hercher) 97 (Letter 29, Hercher) 98 (Letter 30, Hercher)

Bion

99 (DL 4. 46–53) 100 (Plutarch, On the Delays of Divine Vengeance 561C) 101 (Seneca, Benef. 7. 7. 1) 102 (Gnom. Paris. 320) 103 (Stob. 2. 1. 20) 104 ([Plutarch] On the Education of Children 10 C–D) 105 (Stob. 4. 21b. 23) 106 (Sen., On Tranquillity of Mind 15. 4) 107 (Codex florent. of John Damasc., 2. 13. 97) 108 (Gnomol. Vat., 157) 109 (Plutarch, On Progress towards Virtue, 82 E) 110 (Cic., TD 3. 62)

Onesicritus (c.380–c.305 BC)

111 (DL 6. 84) 112 (Plutarch, On the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander 1. 10, 331E) 113 (Plutarch, Life of Alexander 65. 1 seq.) 114 (Strabo 15. 1. 64–5)

Demetrius

115 (Sen., Benef. 7. 1. 3–7. 2. 1) 116 (Sen., Benef. 7. 8. 2–7. 11. 2) 117 (Sen., Letter to Lucilius 20. 8–9) 118 (Sen., Letter to Lucilius 62. 3) 119 (Sen., Letter to Lucilius 67. 14) 120 (Sen., Letter to Lucilius 91. 19) 121 (Sen., Prov. 3. 3) 122 (Sen., On the Happy Life, 18. 3)

Dio Chrysostom

123 Oration 6 124 Oration 8, On Virtue

Teles

125 On Appearance and Reality 126 On Self-Sufficiency 127 On Exile 128 IVA – A Comparison of Poverty and Wealth 129 IVB – A Comparison of Poverty and Wealth 130 V – That Pleasure is Not the Goal of Life 131 VI – On Circumstances 132 VII – On Freedom from Passion

Lucian

133 Demonax 134 On the Death of Peregrinus

Epictetus

135 On Cynicism (Discourse 3. 22)

Julian

136 Against the Ignorant Cynics (Oration 9) 137 To the Cynic Heracleios (Oration 7) How a Cynic should behave and whether he should compose myths (excerpts)

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