Metrodorus
historical figure · 7 works · 23 mentions · 28 anchored passages
Metrodorus of Chios · Metrodorus of Scepsis · Metrodorus of Stratonice · a second Epicurus · his comrade Metrodorus · his friend
spoken of as
3 expressionsMetrodorus of Chios3 mentions
Lucullus (Latin) · Protrepticus (Greek) · Stromata (Greek)
Metrodorus of Chios, who admired him most, at the beginning of his book On Nature says:
Metrodorus of Scepsis1 mention
Tusculan Disputations (Latin)
I do not ask how great a memory Simonides is said to have had, how great Theodectes, how great Cineas, who was sent as envoy by Pyrrhus to the senate, how great Charmadas lately, how great Metrodorus of Scepsis, who lived but recently, how great our own Hortensius:
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Disciple of Epicurus made great by living with him rather than merely hearing him.
It was not the school of Epicurus but living with him that made great men of Metrodorus and Hermarchus and Polyaenus.
it is from Epicurus, or Metrodorus, or someone of that workshop.
And indeed he boasts that he can be fed for less than a penny, but that Metrodorus, who has not yet made so much progress, needs a whole one.
Tusculan Disputations
Epicurean philosopher and close associate of Epicurus, cited for a doctrine equating bodily assurance with perfect happiness.
Metrodorus, indeed, thinks that man perfectly happy whose body is well constituted, and who is assured it will ever be so.
For, just as Plato and the rest of the Socratics, and after them those who proceeded from these, are read by all, even by such as do not approve those teachings or do not pursue them most earnestly, whereas Epicurus and Metrodorus are taken up by scarcely anyone but their own followers, so these Latin writers are read by those alone who think their doctrines rightly stated.
Which same thing Metrodorus too says, in even better words:
Stromata
Epicurean philosopher quoted equating the good of the soul with bodily stability and hope.
And Metrodorus, in his work On the fact that the cause in ourselves toward happiness is greater than that from things, says:
" And Metrodorus, though he was an Epicurean, has said these things divinely inspired:
Cleanthes inscribes Zeno as his teacher, and Theophrastus Aristotle, and Metrodorus Epicurus, and Plato Socrates;
On Moral Ends
Follower of Epicurus, cited as never having held the misreading of Epicurean ethics that Cicero rebuts.
' Never did Epicurus so defend his doctrine, nor Metrodorus, nor any of them who had either any wisdom or had learned these things.
For Metrodorus, I think, did not himself make the profession, but, being so styled by Epicurus, was unwilling to reject so great a kindness;
I hear indeed the voice of a philosopher, Epicurus;
Lucullus
Pupil of Carneades noted for close knowledge of his teaching.
but Metrodorus of Stratonice was reckoned to know Carneades well.
Metrodorus of Chios, who admired him most, at the beginning of his book On Nature says:
On the Nature of the Gods
Epicurean philosopher, close associate of Epicurus, whose brother Timocrates Epicurus attacked in writing.
They do not notice that here he spoke ambiguously, but in many other places both he and Metrodorus spoke as openly as you did a little while ago.
As for Phaedrus, nothing was more elegant, nothing more humane, yet the old man was vexed if I said anything too harsh — while Epicurus assailed Aristotle most insultingly, spoke most foully of Phaedo the disciple of Socrates, cut to pieces in whole volumes Timocrates, the brother of his comrade Metrodorus, because he disagreed on some point of philosophy, was ungrateful to Democritus himself, who …
for Metrodorus accuses his brother Timocrates, because he hesitates to measure all that pertains to the blessed life by the belly — and he says this not once but often.
Protrepticus
Philosopher of Chios who, with Leucippus, held the full and the void as principles.
but Leucippus the Milesian and Metrodorus of Chios, it seems, left two principles also, the full and the void;