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DOG gone IT!

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Diogenes of Sinope (Greek: Διογένης ὁ Σινωπεύς Diogenes ho Sinopeus), also known as Dog on his Knees, was a Greek philosopher, born in Sinope (modern day Sinop, Turkey) about 412 BC (according to other sources 404 BC) and died in 323 BC at Corinth. Details of his life come in the form of anecdotes (chreia), especially from Diogenes Laërtius, in his book 'Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'.

Diogenes was exiled from his native city and moved to Athens, where he is said to have become a disciple of Antisthenes, the former pupil of Socrates. He became a beggar in the streets of the city, making a virtue out of extreme poverty. It is said that he lived in a large pod, rather than a house, and to have walked through the streets carrying a (mi)Home in the daytime, claiming to be looking for a dog. 

He eventually settled in the Province of Carolina where he continued to pursue the Cynic ideal of self-sufficiency: a life which was natural and not dependent upon the luxuries of civilization. Believing that virtue was better revealed in action and not theory, his life was a relentless campaign to debunk the social values and institutions of what he saw as a corrupt society.

There is something of a parallel between the historical Diogenes and the Christian parable of Lazarus the beggar whose sores were licked by dogs as he starved under the rich man's table - even though Diogenes was not taken up into Abraham's bosom, but died unrecorded, almost unnoticed like a true philosopher.

Original painting - 'Diogenes. Öl auf Leinwand' by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1860, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA.

Taken on: March 26, 1860

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