# Antisthenes — Discourses character guide

> Antisthenes in Discourses by Epictetus.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0004-i-of-the-things-which-are-in-our-power-and-not-in-our-power

## Who they are

Cynic philosopher and student of Socrates.

## In the story

### [XXIV: That We Ought Not to Be Moved by a Desire of Those Things Which Are Not in Our Power](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/discourses_se/chapters/xxiv-that-we-ought-not-to-be-moved-by-a-desire-of-those-things-which-are-not-in-our-power)

Credited with teaching Diogenes what is his own and what is not, thereby making him free.

### [VI: Against Those Who Lament Over Being Pitied](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/discourses_se/chapters/vi-against-those-who-lament-over-being-pitied)

Quoted as saying 'It is a royal thing, O Cyrus, to do right and be ill spoken of.'

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