Ancient · c. 446–366 BC
Who influenced Antisthenes?
Influences and legacy
Socrates' hardest-reading student and the original Cynic — virtue needs nothing else.
Antisthenes was influenced by Socrates, and went on to influence Diogenes of Sinope. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Antisthenes?
Antisthenes studied rhetoric under Gorgias before becoming one of Socrates' most devoted followers.
He took up the ethical side of Socrates' teaching and argued for a simple life lived according to virtue. Later writers regarded him as the founder of Cynic philosophy.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Antisthenes?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Socrates c. 470–399 BC
Who did Antisthenes influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Antisthenes.
- Diogenes of Sinope c. 404–323 BC
The line of teachers behind Antisthenes
The longest documented line of influence ending at Antisthenes runs 4 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Antisthenes
Indirect influences
- Through Socrates: Anaxagoras, Aspasia, Prodicus
The second generation
- Through Diogenes of Sinope: Crates of Thebes, Zeno of Citium
Contemporaries of Antisthenes
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Antisthenes, with no direct line between them.
- Aristippus c. 435–356 BC
- Democritus c. 460–370 BC
- Xenophon c. 430–354 BC
- Plato c. 428–348 BC
- Prodicus c. 465–395 BC
- Aspasia c. 470–400 BC
- Philolaus c. 470–385 BC
Antisthenes by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 6
- Thinkers downstream
- 167
- Wikipedia languages
- 60 — #34 of 54 among ancient philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Antisthenes
- Who influenced Antisthenes?
- Socrates.
- Who did Antisthenes influence?
- Diogenes of Sinope.
- When did Antisthenes live?
- c. 446–366 BC. The map files Antisthenes under the ancient world.
- How rare is the Antisthenes card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Antisthenes in 60 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
More ancient philosophers
- Confucius 551–479 BC
- Aristotle 384–322 BC
- Plato c. 428–348 BC
- Socrates c. 470–399 BC
- Pythagoras c. 570–495 BC
- Laozi c. 6th c. BC
- Cicero 106–43 BC
- Thales of Miletus c. 624–546 BC