Sayings and Anecdotes
with Other Popular Moralists
$34.52
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
21 May 2012
Summary
‘many men compete in digging and kicking but no one at all in the pursuit of human excellence.’
Diogenes the Cynic is best remembered today for having lived in a storage-jar, and walking the streets with a lamp in daylight, looking for an honest man. Such stories formed part of a rich tradition of sayings and anecdotes; his biting wit and eccentric behaviour were legendary, and it was by means of these oft-repeated and embellished aphorisms that his moral teachings were transmitted. H…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199589241 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0199589240 |
| Author: | Diogenes the Cynic, Robin Hard |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 21 May 2012 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 127mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Robin Hard has translated Apollodorus’ Library of Greek Mythology and Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations for Oxford World’s Classics. He is the author of the Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology.
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