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.^{[lower-alpha 1]} His epigrams are chiefly upon the great men and women of antiquity, especially the poets. One of them^{[lower-alpha 2]} 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.^{[lower-alpha 3][1]}