1000 Classical Characters Briefly Described

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Antisthenes

An Athenian, founder of the sect of the Cynic philosophers. He taught in the Cynosarges, a gymnasium for the use of Athenians born of foreign mothers; whence probably his followers were called Cynics, though others derive their name from their dog-like neglect of all forms and usages of society. From his school the Stoics subsequently sprung. رام

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