Dioscorides (Stoic)

This article is about the philosopher. For the Roman physician, pharmacologist and botanist, see Pedanius Dioscorides.

Dioscorides (‹See Tfd›Greek: Διοσκορίδης, 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.

Another Dioscorides is mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius. This philosopher was a Pyrrhonist, and was a student of Timon of Phlius.[1]

  1. ^ "Diogenes Laertius: Life of Timon, from Lives of the Philosophers, translated by C.D. Yonge". Archived from the original on 2017-04-26. Retrieved 2017-05-10.