Diogenes (Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476)
Early Life
Diogenes (di-AWJ-uh-neez) was born in Sinope, an ancient Milesian community on the southern coast of the Black Sea. The colony of Miletus was ruled by Persian kings from 495 b.c.e. until Alexander the Great’s conquest in 331 b.c.e. Diogenes himself was probably Greek, of Milesian roots. Little is known about his early life, although it is probable that he came from an educated and well-to-do family. His father, Hicesias, was a banker in charge of issuing the city’s currency; coins minted between 360 and 320 b.c.e. and bearing what is presumed to be Hicesias’s...
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