Diogenes
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Ms. Kuin looks for Diogenes not with a lamp but a searchlight, straining to see his influence everywhere—even in places it is very hard to detect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
In a chapter entitled “A Lone Voice Against Slavery,” Ms. Kuin tries to cast Diogenes as a proto-abolitionist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
These stories tell us that Diogenes was chased out of his native Sinope, on the north coast of what’s now Turkey, for his supposed role in a scheme to debase the city’s currency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
Her subtitle credits Diogenes with a “revolutionary philosophy,” a grand claim that runs counter to recent scholarly treatments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
We came upon an old woman sitting in her garden in a washtub like Diogenes.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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