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... Cynic . But whichever is correct , the important point is that Diogenes drew his following chiefly from the beatniks of fourth - century B.C. Greece , and it was inevitable that respectable people should have thought them doglike . The ...
... Cynic . But whichever is correct , the important point is that Diogenes drew his following chiefly from the beatniks of fourth - century B.C. Greece , and it was inevitable that respectable people should have thought them doglike . The ...
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... Cynic sages in the gardens of their villas , along with their own portraits and statues of the emperors and gods . There is a paradox here . Later generations of Cynic teachers were not personally converted to respectability . Cynicism ...
... Cynic sages in the gardens of their villas , along with their own portraits and statues of the emperors and gods . There is a paradox here . Later generations of Cynic teachers were not personally converted to respectability . Cynicism ...
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... Cynicism , see D. R. Dudley , A History of Cynicism ( London : Methuen , 1937 ) ; R. Höistad , Cynic Hero and Cynic King ( Uppsala , 1948 ) . ETRUSCHERIA THE ETRUSCANS AND EARLY ROME Much the best introduction to the Etruscans is M ...
... Cynicism , see D. R. Dudley , A History of Cynicism ( London : Methuen , 1937 ) ; R. Höistad , Cynic Hero and Cynic King ( Uppsala , 1948 ) . ETRUSCHERIA THE ETRUSCANS AND EARLY ROME Much the best introduction to the Etruscans is M ...
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