# Antisthenes — The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers character guide

> Antisthenes in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Book VI Antisthenes, Cynics

**First appearance:** 0054-antisthenes

## Who they are

Founder of the Cynic school and a student of Socrates.

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