Did Diogenes the Cynic Advocate Enforced Sex?

• Authors: CAMPOS‑DAROCA F. JAVIER , LÓPEZ‑CRUCES JUAN LUIS
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

An explanation is put forward regarding what Philodemus the Epicurean could have read in Diogenes the Cynic’s Republic to make the enforcing of males one of his proposals. Diogenes, in propria persona or through a mouthpiece in this dialogue, may have adduced the example of sexual coercion that the Spartan constitution exerted on all the youngsters of the city. The Cynic probably held the same point of view on the issue in the Republic and in his tragedy Chrysippus.

Keywords

EN

Diogenes the Cynic; Philodemus; Stoics; Sparta; paederasty

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS
• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Eirene. Studia Graeca et Latina
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 273-296

Contributors

author

CAMPOS‑DAROCA F. JAVIER

• Departamento de Filología, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad de Almería, Carrera de Sacramento s/n, La Cañada de San Urbano, 04120‑Almería, Spain

author

LÓPEZ‑CRUCES JUAN LUIS

• Departamento de Filología, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad de Almería, Carrera de Sacramento s/n, La Cañada de San Urbano, 04120‑Almería, Spain