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Show Greek Cynics. The Cynics were a sect of Grecian philosophers, founded by Antlsthenes sbout .'190 B. C. The Cynics were noied for their morose and gloomy views of :lfe; for their disregard of nil sciences, save thut of morality; and for their contempt for the ordinary conventionalities convention-alities of life. The word cynic Is derived de-rived either from Cynosarges, the place where Artlsthenes taught; or from Navlnns (Gr., doglike), In allusion allu-sion to the snarling or surly manner affected by the philosophers of this school. To Diogenes of Slnope, the most distinguished disciple of Antlsthenes, Antls-thenes, the Athenians erected a column col-umn of Parlun murble surmounted by a dog. |