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This list of ancient Greek philosophers contains philosophers who studied in ancient Greece or spoke Greek. Ancient Greek philosophy began in Miletus with the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales [1] [2] and lasted through Late Antiquity. Some of the most famous and influential philosophers of all time were from the ancient Greek world, including ...
Pirrone – philosopher; Pisistratus – tyrant of Athens; Pittacus of Mytilene – one of the Seven Sages of Greece; Pithios – architect; Plato – philosopher; Pleistarchus – King of Sparta; Pleistoanax – King of Sparta; Plotinus – philosopher; Plutarch – biographer; Polemon (scholarch) – Platonist philosopher; Polemon of Athens ...
Socrates (/ ˈ s ɒ k r ə t iː z /, [2] Ancient Greek: Σωκράτης, romanized: Sōkrátēs; c. 470 – 399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy [3] and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.
Roman-era philosophers in Athens (2 C, 22 P) Pages in category "Ancient Athenian philosophers" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Teacher of Seneca. Rhetorician and philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC–65 AD) Statesman, philosopher, and playwright. Many of his works are extant Thrasea Paetus (c. 10 AD–66 AD) Roman senator and Stoic Lucius Annaeus Cornutus (c. 20–c. 70 AD) Stoic teacher who wrote a Compendium of Greek Theology Chaeremon of Alexandria (fl. 50 AD)
Panaetius (/ p ə ˈ n iː ʃ i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Παναίτιος, romanized: Panaítios; c. 185 – c. 110/109 BC) [1] of Rhodes was an ancient Greek Stoic philosopher. [2] He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon and Antipater of Tarsus in Athens, before moving to Rome where he did much to introduce Stoic doctrines to the city, thanks to the patronage of Scipio Aemilianus.
Eudemus was born on the isle of Rhodes, but spent a large part of his life in Athens, where he studied philosophy at Aristotle's Peripatetic School.Eudemus's collaboration with Aristotle was long-lasting and close, and he was generally considered to be one of Aristotle's most brilliant pupils: he and Theophrastus of Lesbos were regularly called not Aristotle's "disciples", but his "companions ...
Detail from Raphael's The School of Athens (1509–1511) The Lyceum (Ancient Greek: Λύκειον, romanized: Lykeion) was a temple in Athens dedicated to Apollo Lyceus ("Apollo the wolf-god" [1]). It was best known for the Peripatetic school of philosophy founded there by Aristotle in 334 BC.