Sayings and Anecdotes : With Other Popular Moralists (Oxford World's Classics): Diogenes/ Hard, Robin (TRN): BOOKS KINOKUNIYA

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Source： ENG
Academic Descriptors： A10201500 E10182400
Place of Publication： Great Britain
Edition： Translation
Continuations： Monograph Series,any number
Academic Level： Extracurricular
Geographic Designator： Western Europe

Table of Contents

 
Introduction                                       vii
The Cynic Succession                               xxvii
The Cyrenaic Succession                            xxviii
Note on the Texts                                  xxix
Note on the Ancient Sources                        xxxi
Select Bibliography                                xxxv
  SAYINGS AND ANECDOTES
  PART 1 DIOGENES AND THE EARLY CYNICS
    I A Humorous Portrait of Diogenes and          3     (3)
    Aristippos
    II Diogenes' Conversion to the Ascetic Life    6     (6)
    III The Sage as Beggar                         12    (7)
    IV Self-characterization                       19    (7)
    V A Short Cut to Philosophy and Virtue         26    (10)
    VI The World of Illusion                       36    (8)
    VII Religion and Superstition                  44    (6)
    VIII Politicians and Rulers                    50    (7)
    IX The Enslavement of Diogenes                 57    (5)
    X Moralistic and Traditional                   62    (10)
    XI Diogenes as Wit                             72    (7)
    XII Old Age and Death                          79    (5)
    XIII Immediate Followers of Diogenes           84    (4)
    XIV Sayings, Anecdotes, and Verses of Crates   88    (11)
    XV The Followers of Crates and Later Cynics    99    (6)
    XVI Postscript: Bion of Borysthenes            105   (12)
    XVII Antisthenes as Forerunner of Cynicism     117   (6)
  PART 2 ARISTIPPOS AND THE CYRENAICS
    XVIII Aristippos of Cyrene                     123   (20)
    XIX The Cyrenaic School under the Younger      143   (7)
    Aristippos
    XX The Other Cyrenaics                         150   (9)
  PART 3 APOCRYPHAL LETTERS
    XXI Selections from the Cynic Letters          159   (16)
    XXII Correspondence of Aristippos              175   (6)
Explanatory Notes                                  181   (80)
Index of Names                                     261   (4)
Index of Themes                                    265

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