Cynosarges was a public Gymnasium ancient Greece gymnasium located just outside the walls of Classical Athens Ancient Athens on the southern bank of the Ilissos river. Its name derives from Cynos argos and means white or swift dog. The legend goes that on one occasion when Didymos, an Athenian, was performing a lavish sacrifice, a white or swift dog appeared and snatched the offering Didymos was alarmed, but received an oracle oracular message saying that he should establish a temple to Heracles in the place where the dog dropped the offering. ref Suda , 2721, 3160. In another account, Suda, 290 a white dog was being sacrificed, and an eagle stole and dropped the offering. ref Herodotus mentions a shrine there in 490 89 BC, ref Herodotus, 6.116 ref and it became a famous sanctuary of Heracles which was also associated with his mother Alcmena , his wife Hebe mythology Hebe and his helper Iolaus . ref Pausanias geographer Pausanias , 1.19.3. ref A renowned gymnasium was built there ref Plutarch , Themistocles , 1 Diogenes La rtius , vi.13 Steph. Byz., 393, 24 ref it was meant especially for nothoi , illegitimate children. ref Demosthenes 23.213 Athenaeus, Deipnosophists , 6.234E Plutarch, Themistocles , 12 ref The Cynosarges was also where the Cynic Antisthenes was said to have lectured, a fact which was offered as one explanation as to how the sect got the name of Cynics. ref Diogenes La rtius, vi.13 ref References reflist External links iep cynosarg Ancient Greece stub Greek myth stub Category Ancient Athens Category Ancient Greek buildings and structures in Athens Category Ancient Greek religion Category Cynicism Category Former buildings and structures of Greece Category Heracles de Kynosarges el es Cinosargo it Cinosarge hu K noszargesz nl Cynosarges ja ru fi Kynosarges zh ... more details
Classical Lyceum and the Cynosarges , ref name colliers ref John Burnet classicist J. Burnet .... 257. ref Antisthenes founded a school at the Cynosarges, from which some say the name Cynic derives ... more details
, leading to Cynosarges and the deme Diomea. On the North side The Acharnian Gate , leading to the deme ... of the same name and the Cynosarges . Agrai , a district south of Diomea. Hills The Areopagus , the Hill ... the city. Cynosarges , east of the city, across the Ilissos, reached from the Diomea gate, a Gymnasium ... more details
Other people2 Ariston disambiguation Aristo or Ariston of Chios lang el floruit fl. c. 260 BC was a Stoicism Stoic philosopher and colleague of Zeno of Citium . He outlined a system of Stoic philosophy that was, in many ways, closer to earlier Cynic philosophy. He rejected the logic al and physics physical sides of philosophy endorsed by Zeno and emphasized ethics . Although agreeing with Zeno that Virtue was the supreme good, he rejected the idea that morally indifferent things such as health and wealth could be ranked according to whether they are naturally preferred. An important philosopher in his day, his views were eventually marginalized by Zeno s successors. He is not to be confused with Aristo of Ceos , a Peripatetic school Peripatetic philosopher of the late 3rd century BC. Life Aristo, son of Miltiades, was born on the island of Chios sometime around 300 BC. ref His date of birth is uncertain. He attended lectures by Zeno born 333 BC, lectured between c. 302 264 BC , and also became his most significant Stoic rival. He also attended lectures by Polemo died 270 269 BC . 290 BC is the latest we can say he was born, but the late 4th century is quite probable. ref He came to Athens where he attended the lectures of Zeno of Citium , and also, for a time, the lectures of Polemon scholarch Polemo , ref name diog162 Diogenes La rtius, vii. 162 ref the head of the Platonic Academy Academy from 314 to 269 BC . Although he was a member of Zeno s circle he soon departed from Zeno s teachings, largely rejecting the two non ethical parts of Stoic philosophy physics and logic endorsed by Zeno. A man of persuasive eloquence, he was such a good speaker that he was called the Siren . He was also called Phalanthus , from his baldness. He set up his own school in the Cynosarges gymnasium ref name diog161 Diogenes La rtius, vii. 161 ref a place associated with Cynic philosophy and attracted many pupils, so much so that when he was accused of exposing the dignit ... more details
Antisthenes taught in the Cynosarges gymnasium at Athens . ref Harvnb La rtius Hicks 1925 loc 13 . Cf. The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature , 2nd edition, p. 165. ref The word Cynosarges ... more details
, Cynosarges, outside the city walls. ref name PT1 However, in an early example of his cunning, Themistocles persuaded well born children to exercise with him in Cynosarges, thus breaking down the distinction ... more details
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