Diogenes of Sinope
c. 412 BCE – 323 BCElived
Sinope, Pontus
- Cynicism
Lived in a storage jar, ate raw meat, and made a career of embarrassing the respectable. His point was serious: almost everything convention treats as necessary is decoration.
Known for
- life according to nature
- shamelessness as freedom
- cosmopolitanism
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.