Question
A person of this name inscribed Epicurus’s teachings onto a portico wall in his hometown of Oenoanda (“EE-no-AN-dah”). A philosopher of this name was the first to suggest that meteorites were extraterrestrial and had his work on blood vessels preserved by Aristotle. A thinker with this name was supposedly beaten with a staff by his future teacher Antisthenes. The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers was written by a man of this name nicknamed (*) Laertius. A philosopher with this name used a plucked chicken to ridicule Plato’s definition of man as a “featherless biped” and carried a lamp around in daylight in search of an honest man. For 10 points, give this name of a barrel-dwelling Cynic philosopher from Sinope ■END■
ANSWER: Diogenes [or Diogenes of Sinope or Diogenes of Oenoanda or Diogenes of Apollonia or Diogenes Laertius]
<Veer Bhatt, RMP - Philosophy> ~25045~ <Editor: Jordan Brownstein>
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