October 16

8:40 A break in my faces searches. Ran into a painting and started wondering. Was Diogenes a partial precursor of St.Dominic?

It is said he wrote a number of books of which none survived.

More than one thousand years later Pothius, a Greek scholar and Constantinopole patriarch makes a synopsis to a book The Wonders Beyond Thule by an Antonious Diogenes describing the mythical world beyond Thule, a fashionable subject in ancient Greece.

However Diogenes is not mentioned on the Wikipedia page of Thule (link above).

Nobody, including Pothius knew when the book was written. Also, not much is known of the youth of Diogenes.

The interesting part is Diogenes is always described half naked, and living in a clay barrel, that reminds of an igloo and with dogs, like someone, maybe a captured slave who came from that area and could not stand the Mediterranean heat. Feeding dogs and using a lamp in daylight could come from nostalgia (or compulsion) from living in the 6 months nights of the world beyond Thule?

I'm  not trying to say he wrote the book but could have been made by notes from his stories.

Thule nowadays is the name of a culture that is located where the ancient Greeks partially thought it was and also a point in the (black and) white extremist discourse, masked as a commercial brand.