Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Acknowledgments XIII
4. Introduction 1
5. The Socratic Tradition: Diogenes, Crates, and Hellenistic Ethics 28
6. Religion and the Early Cynics 47
7. Defacing the Currency: Diogenes' Rhetoric and the Invention of Cynicism 81
8. Cynic Cosmopolitanism 105
9. Dog Heads and Noble Savages: Cynicism Before the Cynics? 121
10. The Scythian Accent: Anacharsis and the Cynics 136
11. The Philosophy of Aristo of Chios 156
12. Cynicism and the Romans: Attraction and Repulsion 190
13. The Ideal Cynic from Epictetus to Julian 205
14. The Bawdy and Society 222
15. Cynicism and Christianity from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance 240
16. Menippus in Antiquity and the Renaissance 265
17. Heirs of the Dog: Cynic Selfhood in Medieval and Renaissance Culture 294
18. The Modern Reception of Cynicism: Diogenes in the Enlightenment 329
19. Picturing Diogenes 366
20. Appendix A 389
21. Appendix B 414
22. Contributors 417
23. Selected and Annotated Bibliography 421
24. Index Locorum 425
25. Index Nominimi 449