Dionysius of
Cyrene ( grc-gre, Διονύσιος ὁ Κυρηναῖος), lived c. 150 BC, was a
Stoic
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* An adherent of Stoicism; one whose moral quality is associated with that school of philosophy
* STOIC, a programming language
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* ...
philosopher and
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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He was a pupil of
Diogenes of Babylon
Diogenes of Babylon (also known as Diogenes of Seleucia; grc-gre, Διογένης Βαβυλώνιος; la, Diogenes Babylonius; c. 230 – c. 150/140 BC) was a Stoic philosopher. He was the head of the Stoic school in Athens, and he was one o ...
and
Antipater of Tarsus
Antipater of Tarsus ( el, Ἀντίπατρος ὁ Ταρσεύς; died 130/129 BC) was a Stoic philosopher. He was the pupil and successor of Diogenes of Babylon as leader of the Stoic school, and was the teacher of Panaetius. He wrote works on ...
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He was famed as a mathematician, and he is probably the Dionysius whose arguments are attacked by
Philodemus in his book ''On Signs'' ( la, De Signis), where Dionysius is reported as arguing that the Sun must be very large because it reappears slowly from behind an obstruction.
[Barnes, J., "Pyrrhonism, Belief and Causation. Observations on the Skepticism of Sextus Empiricus", pp. 2661–2662, in ''Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt:: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung.'' ed. Werk, Vogt, Haase, Temporini. Walter de Gruyter. (1997).]
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