Philosopher

Diogenes of Oenoanda

Overview

Diogenes of Oenoanda (; Ancient Greek: Διογένης ὁ Οἰνοανδεύς) was an Epicurean Greek from the 2nd century AD who carved a summary of the philosophy of Epicurus onto a portico wall in the ancient Greek city of Oenoanda in Lycia (modern day southwest Turkey). The surviving fragments of the wall, originally extended about 80 meters, form an important source of Epicurean philosophy. The inscription, written in Greek, sets out Epicurus' teachings on physics, epistemology, and ethics. It was originally about 25,000 words long and filled 260 square meters of wall space. Less than a third of it has been recovered.

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Philosophers who discussed Diogenes of Oenoanda

• Epicurus

Ideas Diogenes of Oenoanda discusses

• Epicurus
• Turkey
• Hadrian
• Physics
• Plato
• Lucretius
• Epicureanism
• Greeks
• Dream
• Deity
• Lycia
• Virtue
• Epistemology
• Ethics
• Oenoanda

Place in the tradition

Part of Epicureanism.

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