He lived in a very large clay jar, which is actually not that uncommon in the Roman empire during the time that he lived. Almost everyone in the metropolitan areas of the Roman empire owned at least one such jar, and so homeless people would live in them in much the same way homeless people today might live in their cars or a tent. The reason it’s significant that Diogenes lived in one is that he did so by choice, as he had the wealth and social status to live quite comfortably if he wanted to.
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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks agosuch as living in a jar
Beg pardon?
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Wouldn’t it just be an apartment at that point, or…?
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
#jarliving