Apollonius of Tyre (; fl. 50 BC), was a Stoic philosopher.

Strabo Strabo''Strabo'' (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. The father of Pompey was called "Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, Pompeius Strabo". A native of Sicily so clear-si ...

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

Zeno Zeno may refer to: People * Zeno (name), including a list of people and characters with the given name * Zeno (surname) Philosophers * Zeno of Elea (), philosopher, follower of Parmenides, known for his paradoxes * Zeno of Citium (333 – 264 B ...

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 Diogenes Laërtius ( ; , ; ) was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Little is definitively known about his life, but his surviving book ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' is a principal source for the history of ancient Greek ph ...

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 () of which

Stephanus of Byzantium Stephanus or Stephen of Byzantium (; , ''Stéphanos Byzántios''; centuryAD) was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled ''Ethnica'' (). Only meagre fragments of the dictionary survive, but the epit ...

Stephanus, ''Chalkêtorion''. quotes the fourth book, is uncertain.

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