Dionysius the Renegade

Metathemenos Dionysius (Greek: Διονύσιος ὁ Μεταθέμενος, Dionysios ho Metathemenos, among other things also called Dionysius of Heraclea, * ca 330-325; † ca 250) was a Stoic, which was towards the end of his life to Cyrenaics or Epicureans.

He was born the son of Theophantos in Heraclea Pontica where he first attended the school from Heraclides Ponticus. Later he went to Athens and was taught by Alexinus and Menedemus. He then studied Stoicism Zeno of Citium in.

Hard on the eyes (or to the kidneys) suffering, he later turned from Stoicism completely off and left because he could no longer hold for a little moral indifference to the pain of the Epicureans ( or the Kyrenaikern ) above. That's why even his nickname Metathemenos ( the defector ).

While he was known as the Stoics for his abstemious and exemplary life, he was also known as Cyrenaics as a brothel visitor or customer of courtesans.

As an almost- 80 -year-old, he committed suicide, in which he starved himself to death.