Book 6
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Of all the Socratics Antisthenes alone is praised by Theopompus, who says he had consummate skill and could by means of agreeable discourse win over whomsoever he pleased. And this is clear from his writings and from Xenophon’s Banquet. It would seem that the most manly section of the Stoic School owed its origin to him. Hence Athenaeus the epigrammatist writes thus of themAnth. Pal. ix. 496.: Ye experts in Stoic story, ye who commit to sacred pages most excellent doctrines—that virtue alone is the good of the soul: for virtue alone saves man’s life and cities. But that Musei.e. Erato; cf. Athen. xiii. p. 555 b, Ap. Rhod. iii. 1. that is one of the daughters of Memory approves the pampering of the flesh, which other men have chosen for their aim.
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AntisthenesIt seems clear that the passage which begins here is not from the same source as that (in § 14) which precedes the epigram. gave the impulse to the indifference of Diogenes, the continence of Crates, and the hardihood of Zeno, himself laying the foundations of their state. Xenophon calls him the most agreeable of men in conversation and the most temperate in everything else.
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His writings are preserved in ten volumes. The first includes: A Treatise on Expression, or Styles of Speaking. Ajax, or The Speech of Ajax. Odysseus, or Concerning Odysseus. A Defence of Orestes, or Concerning Forensic Writers. Isography (similar writing), or Lysias and Isocrates. A Reply to the Speech of Isocrates entitled Without Witnesses.
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Vol. 2 includes:
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Of the Nature of Animals. Of Procreation of Children, or Of Marriage: a discourse on love. Of the Sophists: a work on Physiognomy. On Justice and Courage: a hortative work in three books. Concerning Theognis, making a fourth and a fifth book.
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In the third volume are treatises: Of the Good. Of Courage. Of Law, or Of a Commonwealth. Of Law, or Of Goodness and Justice. Of Freedom and Slavery. Of Belief. Of the Guardian, or On Obedience. Of Victory: an economic work.
