Diogenes of Sinope
Oedipus
Traditional attribution
Oedipus
Οἰδίπους
A tragedy in Diogenes Laertius' list. Oedipus' incest was one of the taboos the Cynic critique of convention tested, and Julian's polemic against these tragedies points to such scandalous content; no line has survived.
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Authorship note
A lost work whose authorship has been disputed since antiquity. Satyrus (in Diogenes Laertius VI 80) assigned the seven tragedies to Philiscus of Aegina, a pupil of Diogenes; Favorinus (VI 73) also mentioned a certain Pasiphon; the emperor Julian held them to be by Philiscus.
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Other works by Diogenes of Sinope
- Sayings and anecdotes (chreiai) · 300
- Republic (Politeia)
- Letters of Diogenes (Cynic Epistles) · 50
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- 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
- On Virtue
- On the Good
- The Beggar
- Tolmaeus
- Casandrus
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- Life of Diogenes (Diogenes Laertius, Book VI) · 225
Sources
- Juliano. Discursos «Contra los cínicos ignorantes» y «Al cínico Heraclio», 362 d. C. Trad. inglesa de Wilmer Cave Wright, The Works of the Emperor Julian, vol. II, Loeb Classical Library, 1913 (Wikisource en inglés).
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