Dios (philosopher)
Dios was an ancient Greek philosopher of uncertain date. Certain Pythagorean writings on aesthetics are ascribed to him.[1] Two fragments found in Stobaeus under the title On Beauty (Περὶ καλλονῆς) are written in an artificial and archaizing Doric Greek.[2]
Possibly, the pseudonym Dios was intended to evoke the father of Hesiod, who lived in the 7th century BC.[1][2] The writings, however, are much later.[1] According to Hellanikos of Lesbos, Dios the father of Hesiod was descended from Orpheus.[2] Dios (also called Endios or Odios) is among the Pythagoreans mentioned in Iamblichus' Vita Pythagorica (but probably derived from Aristoxenus).[3]
The Pythagorean is probably the Dios, described as a student of the legendary Linos, to whom some wise sayings are attributed in a Coptic collection.[4] The sayings are found in the Vienna parchment fragment K944, copied at the White Monastery in the 10th or 11th century AD.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Trevor Curnow, The Philosophers of the Ancient World: An A–Z Guide (London: Bristol Classical Press, 2006), p. 109.
- ^ a b c Bruno Centrone, "Dios", in Richard Goulet (ed.), Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques, Vol. II (Paris: CNRS Éditions, 1989), p. 878.
- ^ Bruno Centrone, "Authority and Doctrine in the Pseudo-Pythagorean Writings", in Michael Erler, Jan Erik Heßler and Federico M. Petrucci (eds.), Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), p. 123.
- ^ Christian H. Bull, "Plato in Upper Egypt: Greek Philosophy and Monastic Origenism in the Coptic Excerpt from Plato's Republic (NHC VI, 5)", in Hugo Lundhaug and Christian H. Bull (eds.), The Nag Hammadi Codices as Monastic Books (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023), p. 341.
- ^ Dylan M. Burns, "More Greek Philosophers Among the Copts: The Notes of Some Philosophers (MONB.BE) and the 'Wisdom from Outside' in Pseudo-Evodius of Rome's Homily on the Passion and Resurrection", in Ivan Miroshnikov (ed.), Parabiblica Coptica (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023), p. 34.
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