biography
pronunciation:
[antistheneez]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.445–c.365 BC)
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| biography:
| Greek philosopher, thought to be co-founder, with his pupil Diogenes, of the Cynic school. He was a rhetorician and a disciple of Gorgias, and later became a close friend of Socrates. Only fragments of his many works survive. |
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