Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...

Diogenes the Cynic (c. 412–323 BCE) was a contemporary of Plato, who once called him "a Socrates gone mad." After being exiled from his native Sinope for having defaced its coinage, Diogenes moved to ...

Diogenes of Sinope or Diogenes the Cynic (c. 412-323 BCE) was a contemporary of Socrates' pupil Plato, whom Plato described as ‘a Socrates gone mad'. Like Socrates and, to a lesser extent, Plato, ...

Plato, it is said, confronted Diogenes as the great Cynic philosopher washed his greens for dinner. “If you had humored Dionysius”—the tyrant of Syracuse who had called Plato as an adviser—”you wouldn ...

From time to time the media inform us about some person, generally elderly, who has had to be assisted by social services because they live in a state of personal and social neglect, isolated in their ...

Four heads of the Greek philosophers Diogenes, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle on long, tapered columns, mounted on top of short, square bases. The sculptures are within separate niches, under pergola ...