title: Diocles
text: # Diocles
  
  Diocles may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Diocles (mathematician) (c. 240 BC–c. 180 BC), Greek mathematician and geometer
  * Diocles (mythology), one of the first priests of Demeter
  * Diocles of Carystus (4th century BC), also known as Diocles Medicus, Greek physician
  * Diocles of Cnidus (3rd or 2nd century BC), Greek philosopher who wrote a work quoted by Eusebius
  * Diocles of Corinth, winner of the stadion race of the 13th Olympic Games in 728 BC
  * Diocles of Magnesia (2nd or 1st century BC), Greek writer on ancient philosophers quoted many times by Diogenes Laertius
  * Diocles of Megara, ancient Greek warrior from Athens
  * Diocles of Messenia, winner of the stadion race of the 7th Olympic Games in 752 BC
  * Diocles of Peparethus (3rd century BC), Greek historian
  * Diocles of Phlius (fl. c. 400 BC), comic poet
  * Diocles of Syracuse (fl. 413–408 BC), Greek lawgiver in the city-state of Syracuse
  * Diocletian (244–311), Roman emperor formerly named Diocles
  * Diocles (1st century BC), or Tyrannion the Younger
  * Gaius Appuleius Diocles (104–after 146 AD), Roman charioteer
  
  ## Other
  
  * Diocles laser, a laser that uses Chirped pulse amplification at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln
  