About Dioscorides
Born 300 BC. Dioscorides was a philosopher.
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 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
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Who was Dioscorides?
Stoic philosopher (fl. 225 BC)
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Dioscorides was born in 300 BC.
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Dioscorides was a philosopher.
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· DBpedia: Dioscorides (Stoic)
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