Teles Megarenesis

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Teles of Megara (fl. c. 235 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and teacher associated with the Cynic tradition, active in Megara in the second half of the 3rd century BCE. He is known for a series of moralizing discourses, or diatribes, on characteristic Cynic themes such as self-sufficiency, exile, poverty, and the management of fortune; "Peri autarkeias" (On Self-Sufficiency) is among them. His works survive only in fragments preserved by the 5th-century CE anthologist Stobaeus, drawing on the earlier Cynic Bion of Borysthenes and quoting figures including Crates, Metrocles, and Stilpo. These fragments are the earliest surviving examples of the Cynic diatribe, a genre connected to later Stoic and Cynic moral exhortation.

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About Megara

Megara is a Greek city on the isthmus between Attica and the Peloponnese, roughly midway between Athens and Corinth. It gave its name to the Megarian school of philosophy, founded by Euclid of Megara, a follower of Socrates. After Socrates' death Plato and other associates are said by ancient tradition to have withdrawn to Megara; the Cynic writer Teles also worked there.

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