![]() In the second part of the speech (17-28), Diogenes seeks to persuade the traveller that consulting the oracle is also a bad idea. Seat of the oracle in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Finally, the traveller suggests that he should recover the slave in order to sell him and buy a good one, but Diogenes responds that selling something one knows to be bad is fraud and that a focus on acquisition of property merely turns oneself into a slave to material things the best approach would be to own no property at all, like animals (13-16). ![]() Slaves bring additional expenditure for their food and medical treatment, have to be watched in case they steal their master's property, and cause a man's wife and children to become argumentative and lazy (12-13). nature has made each man a body that is sufficient for looking after himself. Diogenes argues that it is better not to have slaves at all, observing that: For example, it is better to go barefoot than to wear a shoe that is harming the foot (8-9). Diogenes responds that it is better not to have a thing, than to have a bad version of that thing. The traveller next claims that if he does not recover the slave, he will have no slave at all. Diogenes responds that this behaviour must have caused the slave to become bad, the worst form of harm one can do to someone (6-7). The traveller claims that he wants to find the slave in order to punish him for ingratitude, since he had been easy on the slave and had done him no harm. He argues that a slave who has run away is by definition a bad slave and that possessing anything bad is harmful to the possessor (2-6). In the first part (2-16), Diogenes seeks to persuade the traveller that hunting the slave is pointless. ![]() The rest of the speech falls into two broad parts. The traveller had been planning to visit the Oracle of Delphi, but his slave attendant has run away, so he is detouring to Corinth in order to search for the slave there (1-2). The speech opens with Diogenes encountering an unnamed traveller on the road from Corinth to Athens. Dio Chrysostom was exiled by the Emperor Domitian in AD 82 and, according to his 13th oration, On his Banishment, he then adopted the guise of a Cynic philosopher and travelled Greece and the Black Sea, delivering orations like this one. He was famous for his very ascetic lifestyle, living outdoors and going without shoes or clothes. The fourth-century BC philosopher Diogenes became a proponent of the Cynic school of philosophy after being exiled from his hometown of Sinope. Diogenes or on Servants ( Ancient Greek: Διογένης ἢ περὶ οἰκέτων, romanized: Diogenēs e peri oiketōn, Oration 10 in modern corpora) is a short speech delivered by Dio Chrysostom between AD 82 and 96, presenting a dialogue between Diogenes of Sinope and an unnamed traveller, which presents arguments against slavery and consulting oracles.īackground Statue of an unknown Cynic philosopher from the Capitoline Museums in Rome.
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