Talk:Diogenes

Another anecdote
In Persian "Geseh Shenidam ke Sheitk ba Cheragh raft va goft: Az Deev va Dad Maloolam va Ensanam Arezoost! Meanings: I heard the story of the old man wondering with a lamp and saying: I am tired of monsters and beasts and wish for a human! I told that to my friends in school and one dude said (in sarcasm) "Nice guy!") indicating that the dude was somewhat suffering from an ego problem.

Death is Life?
Why is "Death" underneath "Life"? They're antonyms, they should be seperate main categories. "Death" has enough content in it.

Depictions in Literature
The article claims that Buster Keaton played Diogenes in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Basic research says that Keaton played a fictional character named Erronius. Diogenes does not appear in the musical or the film. I would delete the short paragraph making this claim, but it has a citation. Can someone check this out?

Fiction
Reading through this article it seems to present the various alleged events Diogenes' life as if they really happened. While we should certainly include them all in some format, perhaps we could cite the IEP article and other reliable sources to rephrase things so that it doesn't look like absurd tall tales from the Hellenistic era are being reported as historical facts? A lot of it is probably more appropriate for the legacy section. &#32;- car chasm (talk) 06:41, 13 January 2023 (UTC)


 * We can obviously rework the aticle and Carchasm has made some edits themself. But we need specifics as generalities are too vague to be useful.  What we don't need is a banner tag for the issue as the lead makes it clear in various ways that information about the subject is anecdotal, fragmentary and uncertain.  Andrew🐉(talk) 08:37, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

To add to article
Basic pieces of information (which anyone visiting this article might expect to find here) to add to this article: approximately how old Diogenes was when he died, and the etymology of his name. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 21:56, 29 July 2023 (UTC)