Apollonius Cronus ( el, Ἀπολλώνιος Κρόνος; fl. 4th century BCE) from
Cyrene was a philosopher of the
Megarian school.
Very little is known about him. He was the pupil of
Eubulides, and was the teacher of
Diodorus Cronus
Diodorus Cronus ( el, Διόδωρος Κρόνος; died c. 284 BC) was a Greek philosopher and dialectician connected to the Megarian school. He was most notable for logic innovations, including his master argument formulated in response to A ...
, as
Strabo relates:
Apollonius Cronus, was from Cyrene, ... being the teacher of Diodorus the Dialectician, who also was given the appellation "Cronus," certain persons having transferred the epithet of the teacher to the pupil.[Strabo, xvii. 3. 22]
The epithet "Cronus" roughly translates as "
old fogey".
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4th-century BC philosophers
Cyrenean Greeks
Megarian philosophers
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown