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The Cynic Who Roamed Athens with a Lantern
Before Diogenes of Sinope became the philosopher who lived in a barrel and told Alexander the Great to get out of his sunlight, he was a banker's son exiled for defacing currency. This episode unpacks the real man behind the myth: his arrival in Athens, his radical interpretation of Cynic philosophy, and how his antics—from carrying a lantern in daylight in search of an honest man to publicly mocking Plato's definition of man as a 'featherless biped'—challenged the foundations of Athenian society. We explore the Cynic doctrine of 'askēsis' (self-discipline) and…
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