ANTISTHENES (c. 444–c. 365 B.e.), the founder of the Cynic school of philosophy, was born at Athens of a Thracian mother. In his youth he studied rhetoric under Gorgias, perhaps also under Hippias and Prodicus. He came under the influence of Socrates, and became a devoted pupil. So eager was he to hear the words of Socrates that he used to walk daily from Peiraeus to Athens, and persuaded his friends to accompany him. He founded a school of his own in the Cynosarges. Thither he attracted the poorer classes by the simplicity of his life and teaching. He wore a cloak, and carried a staff and a wallet, and this costume became the uniform of his followers. Diogenes Laertius says that his works filled ten volumes, but of these fragments only remain. Aristotle speaks of him as uneducated and simple-minded, and Plato describes him as struggling in vain with the difficulties of dialectic. His work represents one great aspect of Socratic philos ophy, and should be compared with the Cyrenaic and Megarian doctrines. (See CYNICS.) •