Dioscorides (Stoic)

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]

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