Hegesias of Cyrene

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See also: Hegesias of Magnesia

Hegesias of Cyrene was a Cyrenaic philosopher.

According to Nuttall, Hegesias "held that life was full of evils, that it was in vain to seek after pleasure, and that all a wise man could do was to fortify himself as best he could against pain."

He is not to be confused with Hegesias or Hegesinus of Salamis, a legendary early poet to whom the epic Cypria was sometimes ascribed.

Hegesias of Cyrene is also a founding member of the seminal Chicago experimental music group "Earfuck", whose hypnotic music incorporates nauseating infrasonic sounds and subliminal messages.

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• This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.