Diogenes the Cynic

Everyone’s a critic, but not everyone is a legendary critic

Diogenes demands Alexander the Great get the &^#$ out of his sun. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Way back in ancient Greece, there lived a charmingly disgusting homeless man named Diogenes. To be sure, there almost certainly were many charmingly disgusting homeless men in ancient Greece, but not all of them became the subject of contemporary writers. This particular fellow, however, for a variety of reasons achieved intellectual immortality and we can read about his…