Published 2023-11-22
Keywords
- Menippus,
- Diogenes Laertius,
- Cynicism,
- Crete
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Abstract
Calling Menippus “Cretan dog” in his Life of Menippus, 6.99-101, Diogenes Laertius does not imply that he was a Cynic: he rather refers to cynanthropy, a pathological bent for death and graves that Greek folklore used to link with Crete.