The Cynics
Subtitle: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy (Hellenistic Culture and Society)
Contributors: R. Bracht Branham (Editor); Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 28, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9780520204492
Subjects: Ancient Western philosophy to c 500; Ancient and Classical; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; Ancient Philosophy; Classical Literature; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Hellenic languages; Literary Criticism; Ancient Greece; History / Ancient / General; Essays; Cynics (Greek philosophy)
First sentence: Of all the routes by which Socrates' philosophy was transmitted to the Hellenistic world, that followed by the Cynics was the most startling and, in certain respects, the most influential.