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The Cynics
The Cynics: the cynic movement in antiquity and its legacy
R. Bracht Branham, Marie Odile Goulet-Caze
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1996.
ISBN: 0520216458   DDC: 183.4   LCC: B508   Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-423) and indexes.

TheSocratic tradition: Diogenes, Crates, and Hellenistic ethics
/Anthony A. Long --Religion and the early cynics /Marie-Odile
Goulet-Cazé --Defacing the currency: Diogenes' rhetoric and the
invention of cynicism /R. Bracht Branham --Cynic cosmopolitanism
/John L. Moles --Dog heads and noble savages: cynicism before the
cynics? /James Romm --TheScythian accent: Anacharsis and the cynics
/Richard P. Martin --Thephilosophy of Aristo of Chios /James I.
Porter --Cynicism and the Romans: attraction and repulsion /Miriam
Griffin --Theideal cynic from Epictetus to Julian /Margarethe
Billerbeck --Thebawdy and society: the shamelessness of Diogenes in
Roman imperial culture /Derek Krueger --Cynicism and Christianity
from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance /Sylvain Matton --Menippus in
antiquity and the Renaissance /Joel C. Relihan --Heirs of the dog:
cynic selfhood in medieval and Renaissance culture /Daniel Kinney
--Themodern reception of cynicism: Diogenes in the Enlightenment
/Heinrich Niehues-Pröbsting --Picturing Diogenes /Diskin Clay
--Appendix A: Acomprehensive catalogue of known cynic philosophers
/Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé --Appendix B:Who was the first dog?
/Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé.

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Dewey Class: 183.4 -- Sophistic & Socratic philosophies
LCC Number: B508

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: ix, 456 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Edition Info: (pbk. : alk. paper)

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