Give me a slow rundown on Diogenes, founder of cynicism and near

He was basically the GG Allin of his time, except virtuous instead of angry.

>>2350153
So he was the Lou Reed of his time?

>>2350159
That works too.

>>2350143
First NEET in History that shitposted all day.

>>2350143
like socrates, what we have of him today is other people using him as a character to demonstrate concepts, so in actuality we don't know a lot about him. the facts are probably that he was a troublesome hobo that lived in a barrel, masturbated in public, and caused a general nuisance, and was well-spoken enough about it to get some attention. I would maybe attribute the walking around town with a lamp story as something that may have actually happened, and walking up to plato with a plucked chicken and some shittalk is another story I see as feasible. many others to me sound like parables that use him as a character to demonstrate an idea.

>>2350275

this, hes used to demostrate the concept that man is born whole, along the way he misses pieces of himself to the ego and tries to repiece himself with frivolous shit like power

Perhaps he disliked what Alexander was doing and would have preferred a strong, unified Greece rather then an empire that would fall almost immediately

>>2350275
True, i've read another story about him, basically it goes something like this; Alexander goes to see Diogenes who is going through a pile of human bones, Alexander asks what he's up to, Diogenes answers that he's trying to find the bones of Alexander but he can't distinguish them from those of a slave. Something about, you can achieve cool things in life but in the end we all die.