Diogenes of Sinope
Chreiai (Anecdotes)
Written work
Chreiai (Anecdotes)
Χρεῖαι
A title in Sotion's list. If it was Diogenes' own work, it would be a collection of his own sayings, the genre through which we know him; but the collections of chreiai circulating under his name were mostly the work of followers and compilers such as Metrocles or Hecato, and this one is lost.
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Authorship note
Lost work. It appears only in the list of Sotion (Book VII of his Succession of Philosophers), who according to Diogenes Laertius (VI 80) held only these titles to be genuine; Sosicrates and Satyrus denied that Diogenes wrote anything.
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Other works by Diogenes of Sinope
- Sayings and anecdotes (chreiai) · 300
- Republic (Politeia)
- Letters of Diogenes (Cynic Epistles) · 50
- Letters
- Cephalion
- Ichthyas
- The Jackdaw
- Pordalus
- The Athenian Demos
- Art of Ethics
- On Wealth
- Erotikos (On Love)
- Theodorus
- Hypsias
- Aristarchus
- On Death
- Helen
- Thyestes
- Heracles
- Achilles
- Medea
- Chrysippus
- Oedipus
- On Virtue
- On the Good
- The Beggar
- Tolmaeus
- Casandrus
- Philiscus
- Sisyphus
- Ganymede
- Life of Diogenes (Diogenes Laertius, Book VI) · 225
Sources
- Diógenes Laercio. Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres, libro VI, 20–81 (Diógenes), 85–93 (Crates) y 104–105 (doctrina cínica), s. III d. C. Trad. inglesa de R. D. Hicks, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. II, Loeb Classical Library 185, Heinemann / Harvard University Press, 1925 (Wikisource en inglés); texto griego en Wikisource griega; trad. de C. D. Yonge, Bohn, Londres, 1853 (Project Gutenberg n.º 57342).
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