1779 Statue of Diogenes, engraving, "Calcografia di Roma"

Statue depicts Diogenes the Cynic standing with his dog

Overall 20.5 x 27.7 cm

Rome, 1779.

Published in the rare "Calcografia di Roma" by G. B. Canneti.

Diogenes, also known as Diogenes the Cynic or Diogenes of Sinope, was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynicism. He was born in Sinope, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea coast of Anatolia in 412 or 404 BC and died at Corinth in 323 BC. Diogenes was a controversial figure.