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• Antisthenes

  Antisthenes ( c.445- c.365 BC) Antisthenes was one of the most devoted followers of Socrates. As a young man he was heavily influenced by the display speeches of Gorgias the rhetorician and the interpretation of Homerpractised by the Sophists. He himself wrote much in the same vein, although almost all has been lost. Antisthenes'influence can be recognized most in the writer Xenophon. Although it is likely that he succeeded in annoying Platoand Isocrates, his influence on Cynicism has be...