Dioscorides ( grc-gre, Διοσκορίδης, fl. 225 BC), sometimes known as Dioscurides, was a
Stoic philosopher, the father of
Zeno of Tarsus and a pupil of
Chrysippus
Chrysippus of Soli (; grc-gre, Χρύσιππος ὁ Σολεύς, ; ) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was a native of Soli, Cilicia, but moved to Athens as a young man, where he became a pupil of the Stoic philosopher Cleanthes. When Clean ...
. All other information has been lost.
Another Dioscorides is mentioned by
Diogenes Laërtius
Diogenes Laërtius ( ; grc-gre, Διογένης Λαέρτιος, ; ) was a biographer of the Ancient Greece, Greek philosophers. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' is a ...
. This philosopher was a
Pyrrhonist, and was a student of
Timon of Phlius.
Dedication
Chrysippus dedicated the following works to Dioscorides:
* Four books on Probable Conjunctive Reasons
* Five books on the Art of Reasoning and of Modes
* A solution, according to the principles of the ancients, of the
law of non-contradiction
* Five volumes of Dialectic Arguments, with no solution
* Two books on Probable Arguments bearing on Definitions
* An essay on
Rhetoric
Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...
, spanning four books
''The Lives of the Philosophers'' by Diogenes Laertius. Book: Lives of Stoic Philosophers, Section 202
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3rd-century BC philosophers
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