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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Records of events in Greece past the 5th century BCE are about as reliable as any other bit of history. Diogenes was a philosopher famous for being something of a wit and an iconoclast, so this would have been very in-character for him to do.