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284:, which discusses the views of Diogenes. According to Philodemus, Diogenes held that music not only can calm the emotions, but that listening to music can produce harmony and proportion in the soul. Diogenes believed that just as diet and exercise can produce a healthy body, so that music can bring health to the mind and can treat psychological illnesses. Music naturally pushes one to action. Diogenes uses the example of the trumpet, or similar military instrument, which can stir the soldier to bravery. Music is thus an art which leads to virtue. 651: 24: 792: 270:. Some aspects of his views on these two subjects are recoverable from the critical remarks to be found in Philodemus' works on these two subjects. There are several passages in Cicero from which we may infer that Diogenes wrote on other subjects also, such as duty, the highest good, and the like. 758: 814: 759:
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claims that he died at the age of 80, he must have been born around 230 BC. There is some evidence, however, that he may have lived to around 140 BC.
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who succeeded him as scholarch. He seems to have closely followed the views of Chrysippus, especially on
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He was the author of several works, of which, however, little more than the titles is known:
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The opinions of Diogenes on music are known through the fragmentary treatise by Philodemus,
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In several books, the first of which is quoted in Athenaeus, xii.; cf. Cicero,
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Cicero calls Diogenes "a great and important Stoic". In the works of the
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In addition, it appears from Philodemus that he wrote extensive works
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speeches first in numerous private assemblies, then in the
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Diogenes

Diogenes of Seleucia
Greek
Latin
Stoic
head
Athens
Rome
none of his writings survived
Seleucia on the Tigris
Babylonia
Athens
Chrysippus
Zeno of Tarsus
scholarch
Panaetius
Antipater of Tarsus
dialectic
Carneades
Critolaus
Rome
talents
Oropus
epideictic
Senate
Cicero
Lucian
Epicurean
Philodemus

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