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- Title: King Meets Dog: The Origin of the Meeting Between Alexander and Diogenes.
- Author : Acta Classica
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 193 KB
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ABSTRACT The article questions some scholarly assumptions about the famous anecdote on the meeting between Alexander and Diogenes the Cynic. While scholars have rightly placed the story within the topos of the opposition between wise man and king, its interest in the two figures amounts to more than generic exempla and its depiction of Alexander is not necessarily hostile. It seems probable that the original form was not a chreia; rather, later versions were extracted from an extended literary version of such an encounter. An early work satisfying these criteria is the Education of Alexander by Onesicritus, the pupil of Diogenes who accompanied Alexander on his Asian campaign.