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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.