person
Diodorus of Tyre
Diodorus
also: Diodorus, Diodorum
A Peripatetic philosopher, pupil and successor of Critolaus as head of the Lyceum in the second century BC. In De Finibus 5.14 Cicero notes that Diodorus joined freedom from pain to honour as the highest good, and so cannot truly be called a Peripatetic.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §5.85 freedom from pain the Peripatetic Diodorus joined to the honorable
Diodorus of Tyre, a head of the Peripatetic school (2nd cent. BC), who defined the highest good as freedom from pain combined with the honorable. He represents a mixed view in Cicero's classification of the ends.