Apollonius of Tyre ( el, Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Τύριος; fl. 50 BC), was a

Stoic philosopher Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century Common Era, BCE. It is a philosophy of personal virtue ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world, asser ...

. Strabo describes him as living "a little before my time," and says he wrote "a tabulated account of the philosophers of the school of

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and of their books," and which appears to have been a short survey of the philosophers and their writings from the time of Zeno. He is mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius as the author of a work on Zeno. Whether this Apollonius is the same as the one who wrote a work on female philosophers, or as the author of the chronological work ( el, Χρονικά) of which Stephanus of ByzantiumStephanus, ''Chalkêtorion''. quotes the fourth book, is uncertain.

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* 1st-century BC people Hellenistic-era philosophers from Asia Roman-era Stoic philosophers Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown People from Tyre, Lebanon {{AncientGreece-philosopher-stub