Diogenes syndrome is a behavioral disorder that affects older adults. It occurs in both men and women. The main symptoms are excessive hoarding, dirty homes, and poor personal hygiene. People with ...

King Alexander the Great was visiting the city of Corinth in the fourth century B.C. He had rallied many of the Greek city states to assist him in invading the Persian Empire. At the age of only 20 he ...

Diogenes of Sinope was an ancient Greek philosopher and self-proclaimed "Citizen of the World" who, at different points, allegedly lived in a wine barrel (or possibly another kind of jar), urinated on ...

Classicist Kuin (Lucian’s Laughing Gods) offers a enthralling intellectual history of Diogenes, the founder of Cynicism—a word derived from the Greek for “dog,” the moniker bestowed on Diogenes by ...

Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...

In the second century A.D. at the city of Oinoanda, the philosopher Diogenes inscribed his works on the wall of a stoa, or portico, in a public square.(Martin Bachmann) In the winter of 1884, two ...

Diogenes of Sinope, better known as Diogenes the Cynic (c. 412-323 BCE), was a contemporary of Socrates' pupil Plato, whom Plato described as "a Socrates gone mad." After being exiled from his native ...