Dioscorides (Stoic)
This article is about the philosopher. For the Roman physician, pharmacologist and botanist, see Pedanius Dioscorides.
Dioscorides (fl. 225 BC), sometimes known as Dioscurides, was a Stoic philosopher, the father of Zeno of Tarsus and a pupil of Chrysippus. All other information has been lost.
Dedication
Chrysippus dedicated the following works to Dioscorides:
- Four books on Probable Conjunctive Reasons[1]
- Five books on the Art of Reasoning and of Modes[2]
- A solution, according to the principles of the ancients, of the law of non-contradiction[3]
- Five volumes of Dialectic Arguments, with no solution[4]
- Two books on Probable Arguments bearing on Definitions[5]
- An essay on Rhetoric, spanning four books[6]
References
- ↑ The Lives of the Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius. Book: Lives of Stoic Philosophers, Section 190
- ↑ The Lives of the Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius. Book: Lives of Stoic Philosophers, Section 193
- ↑ The Lives of the Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius. Book: Lives of Stoic Philosophers, Section 197
- ↑ The Lives of the Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius. Book: Lives of Stoic Philosophers, Section 198
- ↑ The Lives of the Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius. Book: Lives of Stoic Philosophers, Section 200
- ↑ The Lives of the Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius. Book: Lives of Stoic Philosophers, Section 202
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