# Diogenes

> He lived in a barrel, walked through daylight with a lamp searching for an honest man, and told Alexander the Great to step out of his sunlight. Diogenes turned philosophy into performance art — radical poverty as protest against every polite lie civilization told itself.

*4th-century BC Greek Cynic philosopher*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/diogenes

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Turkey
- **Born:** -400
- **Died:** -323
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born to a prosperous family in Sinope around 413 or 403 BC, Diogenes saw his comfortable life shatter after a scandal involving debased coinage forced him into exile. The rupture became his awakening: he rejected wealth entirely, embraced absolute self-sufficiency, and made his body the argument. He slept in a barrel, performed acts considered shameless in public, and wandered the agora with a lit lantern in broad daylight claiming to search for a wise man — each gesture a rebuke to convention. He called himself a "citizen of the world," an early sketch of cosmopolitanism, and when Alexander the Great came to meet the famous beggar-philosopher, Diogenes asked only that the conqueror stop blocking his sun. He died around 324 or 321 BC, leaving no writings but countless anecdotes that made him antiquity's most quoted provocateur.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 71.7 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.4 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 29.1 / 100
- **Now attention:** 17.3 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #65
- **Category rank:** #125

## Topics
#Academics, #Academic, #Philosophy, #Ancient History

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59180)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Diogenes)
- [ديوجانس الكلبى](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%89)
- [Dióxenes de Sinope](https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di%C3%B3xenes_de_Sinope)
- [Diogen](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogen)
- [Диоген](https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD)
- [Дыяген Сінопскі](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8B%D1%8F%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%96)
- [Диоген Синопски](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8)
- [দিওগেনেস](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B8)
- [སི་ནོ་པེ་ཡིའི་དིའོ་ཇེ་ན།](https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%A6%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%93%E0%BD%BC%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%94%E0%BD%BA%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A1%E0%BD%B2%E0%BD%A0%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%91%E0%BD%B2%E0%BD%A0%E0%BD%BC%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%87%E0%BD%BA%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%93%E0%BC%8D)
- [Diogen iz Sinope](https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogen_iz_Sinope)
- [Diògenes de Sinope](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di%C3%B2genes_de_Sinope)
- [دیۆگێنێس](https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%DB%86%DA%AF%DB%8E%D9%86%DB%8E%D8%B3)
- [Díogenés ze Sinópé](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADogen%C3%A9s_ze_Sin%C3%B3p%C3%A9)
- [Диоген](https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD)
- [Diogenes](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes)
- [Diogenes von Sinope](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_von_Sinope)
- [Diyojen](https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diyojen)
- [Διογένης ο Κυνικός](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%BF_%CE%9A%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C%CF%82)
- [Diogeno la Cinika](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogeno_la_Cinika)
- [Diógenes de Sinope](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di%C3%B3genes_de_Sinope)
- [Diogenes](https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes)
- [Diogenes Sinopekoa](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_Sinopekoa)
- [دیوژن کلبی](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%98%D9%86_%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%A8%DB%8C)
- [Wikiquote](https://az.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sinoplu_Diogen)
- [Wikiquote](https://bg.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD)
- [Wikiquote](https://bn.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B8)
- [Wikiquote](https://bs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diogenes)
- [Wikiquote](https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/Di%C3%B2genes_de_Sinope)

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