Antisthenes of Athens keeps in mind the goals and polemics framing each philosophical and textual discussion. Antisthenes' works form the path to a better understanding of the intellectual culture of Athens that shaped Plato and laid the foundations for Hellenistic philosophy and literature. Antisthenes stands at two of the greatest turning points in ancient intellectual history: from pre-Socraticism to Socraticism, and from classical Athens to the Hellenistic period. 198-204)Īntisthenes was famous in antiquity for his studies of Homer's poems, his affiliation with Gorgias and the sophistic movement, his pure Attic writing style, and his inspiration of Diogenes of Sinope, who founded the Cynic philosophical movement. Ethical characters: Alcibiades and Aspasia (t.Antisthenes, the Cynics, and the Stoics (t.Testimonia from the first two tomoi (t.Antisthenes as follower of Socrates (t.Antisthenes' biography : homeland, parents, and social status (t. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 723-746) and indexes.
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