Stories
the narratives it tells itself
Hipparchia chose the cloak.
A wealthy young woman of Maroneia refused every suitor and threatened to kill herself unless she could have Crates. She put on the same cloak and lived with him in public.
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The Scriptures
the texts that carry the stories — and everything elseDiogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, Book VI
The Cynic epistles (pseudonymous, later)