Diogenes or On Tyranny
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Diogenes or On Tyranny (Ancient Greek: Διογένης ἢ περὶ τυραννίδος, romanized: Diogenēs e peri turannidos, Oration 6 in modern corpora) is a speech delivered by Dio Chrysostom between AD 82 and 96, arguing for the superiority of the cynic lifestyle, through a contrast between the life of Diogenes and that of the Persian king, the prototypical tyrant. In contrasting "the 'free' wandering of Diogenes with the anxious, unsettled flitting of the Persian kin, [the speech] impliciting assimilat[es] Dio to Diogenes and Domitian to the king"[1]