Anecdotes of the Cynics

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Anecdotes of the Cynics
Anecdotes of the Cynics

Anecdotes of the Cynics
ISBN: 9780241251461
Publication Date: 2 May 2016

What makes us happy? For over 800 years the Cynic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome argued that the answer lay in a simple, self-sufficient life.

About the Author

Diogenes of Sinope was born around 412 to 404 BC and died in 323. Cynics were highly influential in both Greece and Imperial Rome and endured until the 5th century AD.