Historical Who is Who

An early exemplar of the Cynic way of life. Perhaps best known for living in a barrel and wandering the streets of Athens holding a lantern and saying he was looking for an honest man. His ascetic and itinerant life-style was a moral challenge to contemporary life. Some New Testament scholars have suggested a parallel between the Cynic tradition and that of Jesus of Nazareth.

 Life

• http://www.philosophybasics.com/philosophers_diogenes.html

• http://www.benbest.com/philo/diogenes.html

• http://www.iep.utm.edu/diogsino

Writings

• http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/greece/hetairai/diogenes.html

• http://lucianofsamosata.info/wiki/doku.php?id=cynics:cynic_lives