Diogenes of Sinope
On Wealth
Written work
On Wealth
Περὶ πλούτου
A title known only from Diogenes Laertius' list. The critique of wealth and of the love of money, "mother-city of all evils" according to a saying Laertius attributes to him (VI 50), is one of Cynicism's constant themes, but no fragment of this work survives.
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Authorship note
Lost work. Only the title survives, transmitted by Diogenes Laertius (VI 80). Sosicrates and Satyrus denied that Diogenes wrote anything, and Sotion gave a different list; authorship is therefore uncertain.
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- Republic (Politeia)
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- Ichthyas
- The Jackdaw
- Pordalus
- The Athenian Demos
- Art of Ethics
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- Theodorus
- Hypsias
- Aristarchus
- On Death
- Helen
- Thyestes
- Heracles
- Achilles
- Medea
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- Oedipus
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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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