Diogenes of Sinope
Thyestes
Traditional attribution
Thyestes
Θυέστης
It is the only tragedy on the list about which something is known: according to Diogenes Laertius (VI 73), it argued that there was nothing impious in tasting human flesh and that, by right reason, all elements are in all things, so that meat is in bread. The myth of Thyestes, who unknowingly ate his own children, served as an occasion for Cynic provocation.
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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
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- Ichthyas
- The Jackdaw
- Pordalus
- The Athenian Demos
- Art of Ethics
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- Theodorus
- Hypsias
- Aristarchus
- On Death
- Helen
- Heracles
- Achilles
- Medea
- Chrysippus
- Oedipus
- On Virtue
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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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