Antisthenes

Having heard Socrates, Antisthenes practised the Cynic way, and Plato withdrew to the Academy.

And that most of them were barbarians by race and were educated among barbarians — what need to say it, since Pythagoras was shown to be a Tyrrhenian or a Tyrian, Antisthenes a Phrygian, and Orpheus an Odrysian or a Thracian?

" But I welcome Antisthenes, who says:

But when Antisthenes died, and Diogenes thought none of the rest worthy of his company, he moved to Corinth, and there he passed his time neither renting a house nor lodging with any host, but living in the open in the Craneum.

Diogenes of Sinope, having been cast out of his fatherland, in nothing differing from the very meanest of men, came to Athens, and found there still many of the companions of Socrates—Plato, that is, and Aristippus and Aeschines and Antisthenes and Euclides the Megarian;

So in his defense, in return for the trumpet, he said Diogenes was like the wasps;

But on catching sight of a group comprising Socrates, Critobulus, Hermogenes, Antisthenes, and Charmides, Callias bade one of his servants escort Autolycus and the others, and himself going over to Socrates and his companions, said,

But have you failed to observe, questioned Antisthenes, that the rhapsodes, too, all know these poems?

If that is your view, Socrates, asked Antisthenes, how does it come that you don’t practise what you preach by yourself educating Xanthippe, but live with a wife who is the hardest to get along with of all the women there are—yes, or all that ever were, I suspect, or ever will be?

and also, if the eleven commissioners deemed fit, to depose Astyochus from the office of admiral, and appoint Antisthenes;

The same winter, the seven and thirty ships which had been equipped by the Lacedaemonians for Pharnabazus, through the instrumentality of Calligitus the Megarean and Timagoras the Cyzicene, put out from the Peloponnese, and sailed for Ionia, about the period of the solstice, Antisthenes a Spartan being on board in command of them.

They happened, while Astyochus was still at Rhodes, to have received from Miletus, as their commander after the death of Pedaritus, a Spartan named Leon, who had come out as a passenger with Antisthenes, and twelve ships which had been on guard at Miletus, five of which were Thurian, four Syracusan, one Anaean, one Milesian, and one Leon's own ship When therefore the Chians had gone out against th …

Oh yes, replied Antisthenes, there are men whose friendship I, at any rate, would rather have than two minas:

so he put a question to Antisthenes in the presence of several others, including the careless friend.

Then if that is so, said Socrates, were it not well that one should ask himself how much he is really worth to his friends, and try to make himself as precious as possible, in order that his friends may not be tempted to betray him?

Antisthenes too, in the book entitled Physicus, by saying that there are many gods of popular belief but one god in nature, does away with the power and the nature of the gods.

For Antisthenes thought this — not as a Cynic, but as a pupil of Socrates — that God is like to no one;

"No god pleases me," he says, "who goes about outside with an old woman, nor who slips into houses upon a little board" — for such are the begging priests of the Mother.

For Pasio, your father, did not acquire his fortune, any more than Phormio did, by good luck or by inheritance from his father, but he gave proof to the bankers, Antisthenes and Archestratus, who were his masters, that he was a good man and an honest, and so won their confidence.

From Antisthenes:

Of native Athenians there was this Apollodorus, and Critobulus and his father, and Hermogenes and Epiganes and Aeschines and Antisthenes;

Antisthenes was reproached with having a barbarian mother, a Thracian;