Deinomachus
Δεινόμαχος
(Δεινόμαχος), a philosopher, who agreed with Calliphon in considering the chief good to consist in the union of virtue with bodily pleasure, which Cicero calls a joining of the man with the beast. The doctrine is thus further explained by Clement of Alexandria :--Pleasure and virtue are both of them ends to man; but pleasure is so from the first, whilevirtue only becomes so after experience. (Cic. de Fin. 5.8, de Off. 3.33, Tusc. Quest. 5.30; Clem. Alex. Strom. 2.21.) The Deinomachus, whom Lucian introduces in the Philopseudes, is of course a different person, and possibly a fictitious character.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.