Lecture on the Hellenistic World by Professor Lisa M. Lane, MiraCosta College. CC 2008. (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike licensed.)
4. Society: Focus on the individual Young boy seated on a rock. Terracotta, made in Boeotia, ca. 300 BC. From Tanagra Praxiteles, Statue of Aphrodite (5th c. BC), British Museum
8. Diogenes the Cynic On one occasion he saw a child drinking out of its hands, and so he threw away the cup which belonged to his wallet, saying, "That child has beaten me in simplicity." He also threw away his spoon, after seeing a boy, when he had broken his vessel, take up his lentils with a crust of bread.