Metrodorus
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Metrodorus (Μητρόδωρος) is a Greek name shared by several historical figures:
- Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the elder) (5th century BC) - philosopher from the school of Anaxagoras
- Metrodorus of Cos (5th century BC) - Pythagorean writer
- Metrodorus of Chios (4th century BC) - philosopher from the school of Democritus
- Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the younger) (331–278 BC) - Epicurean philosopher
- Metrodorus of Athens (mid 2nd century BC) - philosopher and painter
- Metrodorus of Stratonicea (late 2nd century BC) - philosopher, originally Epicurean, later a follower of Carneades
- Metrodorus of Scepsis (1st century BC) - writer, orator and politician
- Metrodorus (4th century BC) - physician who married Aristotle's daughter Pythias
- Metrodorus (late 3rd, early 2nd century BC) - general in the employ of Philip V of Macedon during the Cretan War
- Metrodorus (late 1st, early 2nd century AD) - pupil of the physician Sabinus