Dioscorides (Stoic)
# Dioscorides (Stoic)

Dioscorides (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.

## 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
