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A political treatise known only from testimonies, chiefly Philodemus and Diogenes Laertius (VI 72–73). It proposed a community without marriage—the free union of the man who persuades with the woman who consents—with children held in common, knucklebones instead of coinage, indifference to dietary and religious taboos, cannibalism included, and the idea that the only right constitution is that of the cosmos. It inspired the Republic of Zeno of Citium, written according to tradition "on the dog's tail", and stands at the origin of ancient cosmopolitanism.
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Authorship note
A lost work whose authenticity has been disputed since antiquity. It appears in Diogenes Laertius' list (VI 80) but not in Sotion's; some later Stoics, uneasy with its content, declared it spurious. Philodemus of Gadara (On the Stoics, PHerc. 155 and 339) replied that Cleanthes and Chrysippus quoted it as Diogenes' work, and most present-day specialists (Dorandi, Schofield, Goulet-Cazé) regard it as genuine.
Editions and translations
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Griego antiguo
Diogenes of Sinope
Socratis et Socraticorum Reliquiae (ed. Gabriele Giannantoni), vol. II, sección V B
The Conscious LibrarySocratis et Socraticorum Reliquiae (ed. Gabriele Giannantoni), vol. II, sección V B
Bibliopolis, 1990
ISBN 9788870882155
Edición crítica de referencia de los testimonios y fragmentos de Diógenes; el ISBN es el de la obra en Open Library.
Español
Los filósofos cínicos y la literatura moral serioburlesca
Akal (Clásica), 2008
Translation: José Antonio Martín García (rev. Cristóbal Macías Villalobos)
ISBN 9788446030119
Dos volúmenes con la traducción de casi todos los testimonios cínicos; Open Library registra este ISBN sin indicar tomo y la ficha de una librería lo asocia al vol. II.
Other works by Diogenes of Sinope
- Sayings and anecdotes (chreiai) · 300
- 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
- Chreiai (Anecdotes)
- Life of Diogenes (Diogenes Laertius, Book VI) · 225
Sources
- Dorandi, Tiziano. «Filodemo, Gli Stoici (PHerc. 155 e 339)». Cronache Ercolanesi 12 (1982). Edición del tratado de Filodemo que defiende la autenticidad de la República de Diógenes y discute la de Zenón.
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