Dioscorides (, fl. 225 BC), sometimes known as Dioscurides, was a

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philosopher, the father of Zeno of Tarsus and a pupil of

Chrysippus Chrysippus of Soli (; , ; ) was a Ancient Greece, Greek Stoicism, Stoic Philosophy, philosopher. He was a native of Soli, Cilicia, but moved to Athens as a young man, where he became a pupil of the Stoic philosopher Cleanthes. When Cleanthes ...

. All other information has been lost.

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

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* Five volumes of Dialectic Arguments, with no solution * Two books on Probable Arguments bearing on Definitions * An essay on

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, spanning four books

References

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