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Dionysius of Heraclea
Dionysius
also: Dionysius, Heracleotes Dionysius, Dionysius the Renegade, Dionysius Metathemenos
Dionysius of Heraclea Pontica (c. 330-250 BC), a Stoic pupil of Zeno nicknamed 'the Renegade' (Metathemenos) because, suffering from eye pain, he abandoned the Stoic doctrine that pain is no evil and went over to the Cyrenaics. Cicero cites his defection in De Finibus 5.94.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §5.94 that Dionysius of Heraclea seems to have deserted the Stoics
Dionysius of Heraclea, nicknamed 'the Renegade', abandoned Stoicism for hedonism when eye-pain convinced him pain really is an evil. Cicero cites his apostasy as a failure to live up to Zeno's doctrine.
- Tusculan Disputations §2.60 Dionysius of Heraclea, having learned from Zeno to be brave, was unlearned by pain
Dionysius of Heraclea ('the Renegade', ho Metathemenos), a pupil of Zeno of Citium who abandoned Stoicism for Cyrenaic hedonism when racked by an eye disease (here kidney pain). Cicero cites his apostasy as a failure of doctrine under pain.
- Tusculan Disputations §3.18 Dionysius of Heraclea
Dionysius of Heraclea (c. 328-248 BC), nicknamed 'the Renegade' (Metathemenos) for deserting Stoicism for hedonism. Cicero cites his criticism of the Homeric Achilles' swelling wrath.