Dioscorides (Stoic)

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

Dioscorides (Ancient 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.^[1]

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, spanning four books