Citation

Cruces JLL. Class. Q. 2018; 68(1): 91-96.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Classical Association (Great Britain), Publisher Oxford University Press)

DOI

10.1017/S0009838818000046

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Abstract

In his Lives of Eminent Philosophers (6.75-6) Diogenes Laertius mentions, among the various traditions of how Diogenes the Cynic met his end, the belief that he committed suicide by retention of the breath. He cites as his authority for this the poet Cercidas of Megalopolis (c.290-post 215 b.c.e.), who, between some fifty and a hundred years after the death of the Cynic, celebrated his ascent to heaven in the following verses. Copyright © The Classical Association 2018.

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