Diogenes of Babylon: The Stoic Sage in the City of Fools

D IOGENES OF BABYLON, fifth scholarch of the Stoa and flourishing in the first half of the second century B.C. , has not been accorded the attention his philosophical and historical importance merits. 1 He receives only passing notice in the standard histories of Stoicism, despite abundant evidence that he effected a far-reaching revision of Stoic doctrine in such fields as linguistics,2 music education,3 philosophical psycho 1ogy,4 rhetoric,5 ethics,6 and political philosophy.7 Accidents of