BION OF BORYSTHENES
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A custom at the time was for people in grief to literally tear some of their hair out. This quotation is memorable because it is one of the earliest that questions established customs and traditions by using logic—something which is more common in modern times than in Ancient Greece, but even today much custom and superstition is accepted and followed without any logical analysis.
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Bion of Borysthenes was a Greek philosopher. After being sold into slavery, and then released, he moved to Athens, where he studied in almost every school of philosophy. It is, however, for his Cynic-style diatribes that he is chiefly remembered. He satirized the foolishness of people, attacked religion, and eulogized philosophy.
