# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/diogenes
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:47:06.355Z

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description: "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."
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deathDate: "-323"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.