Gymnosophists
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Gymnosophists were ancient Indian philosophers who pursued asceticism to the point of regarding food and clothing as detrimental to purity of thought. They are mentioned several times in Ancient Greek
Alexander meets the Gymnosophists. Great Mongol Shahnameh, c. 1335. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Medieval miniature reproducing the meeting of the gymnosophists with Alexander, c. 1420, Historia de proelis
Pyrrho
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Pyrrho of Elis was a Greek philosopher of Classical antiquity, credited as being the first Greek skeptic philosopher and founder of Pyrrhonism.
Gymnosophists
…Plutarch, "Life of Alexander", Parallel Lives, 64–65. Diogenes Laërtius (fl. 3rd century AD) refers to them, and reports that Pyrrho of Ellis was influenced by the gymnosophists while in India with Alexander the Great, and on his return to Ellis, imitated their habits of life and…
Pyrrho of Elis, marble head, Roman copy, Archaeological Museum of Corfu