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    Antisthenes

    historical figure · 12 works · 21 mentions · 29 anchored passages

    Antisthenes a Spartan

    in the texts

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Pupil of Socrates who founded the Cynic way of life.

    Having heard Socrates, Antisthenes practised the Cynic way, and Plato withdrew to the Academy.
    book 1
    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?
    book 1
    " But I welcome Antisthenes, who says:
    book 2

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Follower of Socrates whose words Diogenes valued above all others; Diogenes' teacher in Athens.

    So in his defense, in return for the trumpet, he said Diogenes was like the wasps;
    oration 8
    Since Antisthenes himself, when he compared him to his own words, he sometimes convicted of being much softer, and said, in his rebuke, that the man was a trumpet;
    oration 8
    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.
    oration 8

    SymposiumClassical · Greek

    A Socratic companion whose questions sharpen claims about education, righteousness, courage, and poetic learning.

    asked Antisthenes.
    chapter 3
    In wealth, he replied.
    chapter 3
    Certainly it is, replied Antisthenes, and the least debatable kind, too;
    chapter 3

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    Spartan officer put in command of the ships sent toward Pharnabazus, potential replacement for Astyochus.

    and also, if the eleven commissioners deemed fit, to depose Astyochus from the office of admiral, and appoint Antisthenes;
    chapter 8
    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.
    chapter 8
    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 …
    chapter 8

    MemorabiliaClassical · Greek

    A companion of Socrates questioned about whether friends, like servants, differ in worth, prompting a discussion of how much one should strive to be worth to one's own friends.

    Antisthenes, he said, have friends like servants their own values?
    chapter 2
    Good servants, I find, are not offered for sale, nor are good friends betrayed.
    chapter 2
    so he put a question to Antisthenes in the presence of several others, including the careless friend.
    chapter 2

    On the Nature of the GodsHellenistic · Latin

    Greek philosopher, author of Physicus, who distinguished popular gods from a single natural god.

    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.
    book 1

    ProtrepticusLate Antiquity · Greek

    Pupil of Socrates who held that God is like to no one and therefore unlearnable from any image; elsewhere quoted rebuking mendicant priests of the Mother of the gods.

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

    For PhormioClassical · Greek

    Banker and former master of Pasio.

    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.
    for phormio

    MeditationsImperial · Greek

    Founder of Cynic philosophy, cited as the source of a saying about enduring slander while doing well

    From Antisthenes:
    book seven

    ParmenidesClassical · Greek

    One of those present at the reading who joins in urging Parmenides to demonstrate the dialectical method by example.

    Antiphon said that Pythodorus told him that when Zeno said this he himself and Antisthenes and the rest begged Parmenides to show his meaning by an example and not to refuse.
    chapter 16

    PhaedoClassical · Greek

    An Athenian present at Socrates' death.

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

    On the Steadfastness of the Wise ManImperial · Latin

    Philosopher reproached for having a barbarian Thracian mother, who answered that the mother of the gods was also from Mount Ida.

    Antisthenes was reproached with having a barbarian mother, a Thracian;
    on the steadfastness of the wise man