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Diogenes (Διογένης) is a Greek name shared by several important historical figures:

Diogenes of Sinope ( 412- 323 BC), better known as Diogenes the Cynic or simply Diogenes
Diogenes Apolloniates (c:a 460 BC), philosopher
Diogenes of Seleukia (c:a 150 BC)
Diogenes Laertius (between 200- 500 AD), historian

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DiogenesDiogenes is a Greek name shared by several important historical figures: Diogenes of Sinope ( 412- 323 BC), better known as Diogenes the Cynic or simply Diogenes Diogenes Apolloniates (c:a 460 BC), philosopher Diogenes of Seleukia (c:a 150 BC) Diogenes La	Diogenes LaertiusDiogenes Laertius the biographer of the Greek philosophers, is supposed by some to have received his surname from the town of Laerte in Cilicia, and by others from the Roman family of the Laertii. Of the circumstances of his life we know nothing. He must	Diogenes ApolloniatesAncient philosophers Diogenes Apolloniates or Diogenes of Apollonia (c. 460 BC), Greek natural philosopher, was a native of Apollonia in Crete. Although of Dorian stock, he wrote in the Ionic dialect, like all the physiologi (physical philosophers). There
Diogenes of SinopeDiogenes "the Cynic," Greek philosopher, was born at Sinope about 412 BC, and died in 323 at Corinth, according to Diogenes Laertius, on the day on which Alexander the Great died at Babylon. His father, Icesias, a money-changer, was imprisoned or exiled o	Diogenes SmallDiogenes Small ( 1797- 1812), is a fictional character by British crime author Colin Dexter and the supposed author of numerous historical and other works. One of the distinctive features of Dexter's Inspector Morse novels is the use of quotations as chap