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Antisthenes (; ; c. 445 – c. 365 BC) was a Greek philosopher and a pupil of Socrates. Antisthenes first learned rhetoric under Gorgias before becoming an ardent disciple of Socrates. He adopted and developed the ethical side of Socrates' teachings, advocating an ascetic life lived in accordance with virtue. Later writers regarded him as the founder of Cynic philosophy.
Antisthenes was the name of several people in the time of Ancient Greece:
- Antisthenes of Athens, 445-365 BC, pupil of Socrates and the founder of the Cynic school of philosophy
- Antisthenes (Heraclitean), disciple of Heraclitus
- Antisthenes of Agrigentum, an immensely wealthy citizen of Agrigentum
- Antisthenes of Rhodes, c. 200 BC, Greek historian
- Antisthenes of Sparta, c. 412 BC, a Spartan admiral in the Peloponnesian war
Antisthenes was a man of ancient Greece who was a disciple of Heraclitus, on whose work he wrote a commentary.
It is not improbable that this Antisthenes may be the same as the one who wrote a work on the succession of the Greek philosophers , which is so often referred to by Diogenes Laërtius in his own work, unless it appear preferable to assign it to the peripatetic philosopher of this name mentioned by Phlegon of Tralles, Antisthenes of Rhodes.