In the "Anthology of Kinism" for the first time in Russian historical and philosophical literature, preserved fragments and surviving works of the oldest cynics, as well as later cynical and kinizing authors, starting with Antisthenes of Athens and Diogenes of Sinop, and ending with Dion Chrysostom, and Lucian from Samosata. The book characterizes kinic thought for almost a thousand-year period of its existence (V century BC - V century AD).