# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/menedemus-the-cynic
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:06:07.939Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/menedemus-the-cynic"
name: "Menedemus the Cynic"
slug: "menedemus-the-cynic"
description: "Menedemus was a Cynic philosopher, and a pupil of the Epicurean Colotes of Lampsacus. Diogenes Laërtius states that he used to go about garbed as a Fury, proclaiming himself a sort of spy from Hades:He assumed the garb of a Fury, and went about saying that he had come from Hades to take notice of all who did wrong, in order that he might descend there again and make his report to the deities who live in that country. And this was his dress: a tunic of a dark colour reaching to his feet, and a purple girdle round his waist, an Arcadian hat on his head with the twelve signs of the zodiac embroidered on it, tragic buskins, a preposterously long beard, and an ashen staff in his hand."
tagline: "3rd century BC Greek Cynic philosopher"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "-400"
deathDate: "-300"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.41
  momentum:             15
  historical:           12.66983466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Менедем (кінік)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%B0%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "مينيديموس ذا سينيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menedem_el_C%C3%ADnic"
    title: "Menedem el Cínic"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menedemos_(Kyniker)"
    title: "Menedemos (Kyniker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%AD%CE%B4%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%BF_%CE%9A%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C%CF%82"
    title: "Μενέδημος ο Κυνικός"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menedemus_the_Cynic"
    title: "Menedemus the Cynic"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menedemos_(kyynikko)"
    title: "Menedemos (kyynikko)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9n%C3%A9d%C3%A8me_le_Cynique"
    title: "Ménédème le Cynique"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mened%C3%A9mosz"
    title: "Menedémosz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menedemo_il_Cinico"
    title: "Menedemo il Cinico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menedemus_(cynicus)"
    title: "Menedemus (cynicus)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menedemos_Cynik"
    title: "Menedemos Cynik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menedemo_de_L%C3%A2mpsaco"
    title: "Menedemo de Lâmpsaco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BC_(%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA)"
    title: "Менедем (киник)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinik_Menedemus"
    title: "Kinik Menedemus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q925732"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump