Antiquity is not only the majestic ensembles of antiquity and the classical works of Phidias, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, but also the motley world of city squares and streets with their ever-boiling passions, folk life and the struggle of the lower working classes for their rights and human relations . The book tells about the philosophy of the Cynics, which in its own way reflected the worldview of the oppressed layers of the slave-holding society, about the amazing sages Antisthenes, Diogenes of Sinope, Crates, their way of life, preaching activities, the influence of their teaching on subsequent generations. Recommended for ancient philologists, philosophers, historians , as well as everyone who is interested in the problems of antiquity.