Archedemus of Tarsus ()Strabo, Geography, xiv; Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Philosophers, vii. was a Stoic philosopher who flourished around 140 BC. Two of his works: On the Voice () and On Elements (), are mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius.Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Philosophers, vii.
Archedemus is probably the same person as the Archedemus, whom Plutarch calls an Athenian, and who, he states, went into Parthia and founded a school of Stoic philosophers at Babylon.Plutarch, de Exilio, 14.
Archedemus is also mentioned by Cicero,Cicero, Acad. Quaest., ii. 47. Seneca,Seneca, Epistles, 121. Epictetus,Epictetus, Discourses, Book II, Chapter 5. and other ancient writers.
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