Zenodotus (; el, Ζηνόδοτος; fl. 150 BC) was a
Stoic philosopher. He was a pupil of
Diogenes of Babylon. He is mostly known from the short biography of him in
Diogenes Laertius' ''Lives of the Philosophers''.
An Athenian
ephebic decree of 122/1 BC records that he gave lectures to the ephebes at the
Ptolemaeum and the
Lyceum throughout the year and honours the ephebes for their diligence in attending.
Poetry
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 ...
recorded the epitaph Zenodotus wrote for
Zeno of Citium:
Dedications
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 ...
dedicated a two-book treatise on proverbs to Zenodotus.
''The Lives of the Philosophers'' by Diogenes Laërtius. Book: Lives of Stoic Philosophers, Section 200
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2nd-century BC Greek philosophers
Stoic philosophers