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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. (20[1]0[1])The Lives and Opinions (0[1])of Eminent Philosophers (20[2])was written by a man of this name nicknamed (0[1])(*) Laertius. (10[5])A philosopher with this name used a plucked chicken (10[5])to ridicule (10[5])Plato’s (10[1])definition (10[6])of man as (10[1])a “featherless (10[1])biped” and carried a lamp around in daylight in search of an honest man. (10[3])For 10 points, give this name of a barrel-dwelling (10[1])Cynic philosopher (10[1])from Sinope ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Diogenes [or Diogenes of Sinope or Diogenes of Oenoanda or Diogenes of Apollonia or Diogenes Laertius]
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