person
Antisthenes
also: Antisthenes
Athenian follower of Socrates (c. 445–365 BC), founder of the Cynic strain the Stoics claimed as forebear; reproached with his Thracian mother, he replied that the mother of the gods too was Phrygian.
Reading notes
- On the Firmness of the Wise Man §18.6 Antisthenes
Athenian pupil of Socrates and forerunner of the Cynics; reproached with his Thracian mother, he answered that the mother of the gods too was Phrygian.