Later lives place Alexander asking what Diogenes wants and receiving 'stand out of my sun'
Diogenes of Sinope’s documented role is: A later meeting-story. In the causal graph this event strengthens Democratic Resilience, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.
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A king is told to stop blocking the sun. Diogenes of Sinope’s documented role is: A later meeting-story. Alexander's wars remain Alexander's. Low confidence on a documented interview. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Diogenes of Sinope's documented role is: A later meeting-story. Alexander's wars remain Alexander's.
Context
Corinth as a usual later setting for the meeting. Named others on the file: Alexander as received interlocutor. The public setting is the file around -0336-01-01. The instrument stays Later lives place Alexander asking what Diogenes wants and receiving 'stand out of my sun'. The setting of Later lives place Alexander asking what Diogenes wants and receiving 'stand out of my sun' is the public file around -0336-01-01. Driver democratic-resilience is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
Shared responsibility is part of Later lives place Alexander asking what Diogenes wants and receiving 'stand out of my sun'. Naming Diogenes of Sinope does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0336-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
Why it matters
Refusal of a king. Welfare reading improving. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Diogenes of Sinope
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.32 · verified
A later meeting-story. Alexander's wars remain Alexander's. Low confidence on a documented interview.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactLater lives place Alexander asking what Diogenes wants and receiving 'stand out of my sun'
- strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicators (3)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 336 · verified
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.21 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.7)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.53 score from 0 to 1 · 0.34 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.17 score from 0 to 1 to 0.53 score from 0 to 1.
Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.55 index score (0-1) · 0.26 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — CynicsInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — DiogenesEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Independent lives flag the meeting as famous and weakly dated. Official: Britannica — Diogenes (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Diogenes-Greek-philosopher (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Cynics (https://iep.utm.edu/cynics/ (opens in a new tab); Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Diogenes (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Diogenes-Greek-philosopher (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Cynics (https://iep.utm.edu/cynics/ (opens in a new tab); Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy).
Low confidence. Established: a sourced public record of Later lives place Alexander asking what Diogenes wants and receiving 'stand out of my sun' under -0336-01-01.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Later lives place Alexander asking what Diogenes wants and receiving 'stand out of my sun' are separate paths.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorDiogenes of Sinope
- contributed toFactLater lives place Alexander asking what Diogenes wants and receiving 'stand out of my sun'
- strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). Later lives place Alexander asking what Diogenes wants and receiving 'stand out of my sun'. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/dio-alexander-sun
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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