Dioscorides (Greek: Διοσκουρίδης, Dioskourídēs; 3rd century BC) was a Greek epigrammatist of the Hellenistic period.[1]
Dioscorides seems, from the internal evidence of his epigrams, to have lived in Egypt, about the time of Ptolemy Euergetes.[1]
Dioscorides was the author of thirty-nine epigrams in the Greek Anthology.[a] His epigrams are chiefly upon the great men and women of antiquity, especially the poets. One of them[b] would seem, from its title in the Vatican MS., Διοσκορίδου Νικοπολίτου, to be the production of a later writer.[1]
The epigrams of Dioscorides were included in the Garland of Meleager.[c][1]