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Acrion | 5th / 4th century BC | Pythagorean | visited by Plato |
Adrastus of Aphrodisias | 2nd century AD | Peripatetic | wrote commentaries on Aristotle's works and a commentary on Plato's Timaeus |
Aedesia | 5th century | Neoplatonic | wife of Hermias, and mother of Ammonius and Heliodorus |
Aedesius | 3rd / 4th century | Neoplatonic | studied under Iamblichus before founding his own school in Pergamum |
Aeneas of Gaza | 5th / 6th century | Neoplatonic | a Christian convert who studied under Hierocles |
Aenesidemus | 1st century BC? | Pyrrhonist | wrote a book called Pyrrhonist Discourses which became a central text for the skeptics |
Aesara | 5th / 4th century BC | Pythagorean |
Aeschines of Neapolis | 2nd / 1st century BC | Academic skeptic |
Aeschines of Sphettus | 5th / 4th century BC | Socratic | part of Socrates' circle and likely present at his death |
Aetius | 4th century AD | Peripatetic | Antiochean convert to Christianity who studied in Alexandria |
Agapius | 5th / 6th century AD | Neoplatonic | studied under Marinus of Neapolis. known for his learning |
Agathobulus | 1st / 2nd century AD | Cynicism | Known for his severe asceticism and teacher of Demonax |
Agathosthenes |
Agrippa the Skeptic | 1st / 2nd century AD | Pyrrhonist | thought to be the creator of the "five grounds of doubt" |
Albinus | 2nd century AD | Middle Platonist |
Alcinous | 2nd century AD? | Middle Platonist |
Alcmaeon of Croton | 5th / 5th century BC | Pythagorean | interested in medicine |
Alexamenus of Teos | 5th century BC? | Socratic | may have been the first to write philosophical dialogues |
Alexander of Aegae | 1st century AD | Peripatetic school | tutored the emperor Nero |
Alexander of Aphrodisias | 2nd / 3rd century AD | Peripatetic school | influential commentator on the Corpus Aristotelicum |
Alexicrates | 1st / 2nd century AD | Pythagorean |
Alexinus | 4th / 3rd century BC | Megarian | founded his own school which did not fare well |
Amelius | 3rd century AD | Neoplatonic | student of Plotinus who wrote voluminously |
Ammonius Hermiae | 5th / 6th century AD | Neoplatonic |
Ammonius of Athens | 1st century AD | Middle Platonist | teacher of Plutarch |
Ammonius Saccas | 2nd / 3rd century AD | Neoplatonic | Plotinus' teacher |
Anaxagoras | 5th century BC | Pluralist |
Anaxarchus | 4th century BC | Atomist |
Anaxilaus | 1st century BC / 1st century AD | Pythagorean |
Anaximander | 7th / 6th century BC | Milesian |
Anaximenes of Miletus | 6th century BC | Milesian |
Androcydes | 2nd century BC? | Pythagorean |
Andronicus of Rhodes | 1st century BC | Peripatetic |
Anniceris | 4th / 3rd century BC | Cyrenaic |
Antiochus of Ascalon | 2nd / 1st century BC | Middle Platonist |
Antipater of Cyrene | 4th century BC | Cyrenaic |
Antipater of Tarsus | 2nd century BC | Stoic |
Antipater of Tyre | 1st century BC | Stoic |
Antisthenes | 5th / 4th century BC | Cynic |
Antoninus | 4th century AD | Neoplatonic |
Apollodorus of Athens | 2nd century BC | Stoic |
Apollodorus of Seleucia | 2nd century BC | Stoic |
Apollodorus the Epicurean | 2nd century BC | Epicurean |
Apollonius Cronus | 4th century BC | Megarian |
Apollonius of Tyana | 1st century AD | Neopythagorean |
Apollonius of Tyre | 1st century BC | Stoic |
Arcesilaus | 4th / 3rd century BC | Academic skeptic |
Archedemus of Tarsus | 2nd century BC | Stoic |
Archelaus | 5th century BC | Pluralist |
Archytas | 5th / 4th century BC | Pythagorean |
Arete of Cyrene | 4th century BC | Cyrenaic |
Arignote | 6th / 5th century BC | Pythagorean |
Aristarchus of Samos | 4th / 3rd century BC | Academic skeptic | presented the first known model that placed the Sun at the center of the known universe with the Earth revolving around it. |
Aristippus | 5th / 4th century BC | Cyrenaic |
Aristippus the Younger | 4th century BC | Cyrenaic |
Aristoclea | fl. 6th century BC |
Aristocles of Messene | 1st century AD? | Peripatetic |
Aristocreon | 3rd / 2nd century BC | Stoic |
Aristo of Alexandria | 2nd /1st century BC | Peripatetic |
Aristo of Ceos | 3rd / 2nd century BC | Peripatetic |
Aristo of Chios | 4th / 3rd century BC | Stoic |
Aristotle | 4th century BC | Peripatetic | founder of Peripatetic school |
Aristotle of Cyrene | 4th / 3rd century BC | Cyrenaic |
Aristotle of Mytilene | 2nd century AD | Peripatetic |
Aristoxenus | 4th century BC | Peripatetic |
Arius Didymus | 1st century BC | Stoic |
Asclepiades of Phlius | 4th / 3rd century BC | Eretrian |
Asclepiades the Cynic | 4th century AD | Cynicism |
Asclepigenia | 5th / 6th century AD | Neoplatonic |
Asclepiodotus | 1st century BC |
Asclepiodotus of Alexandria | 5th century AD | Neoplatonic |
Aspasius | 2nd century AD | Peripatetic |
Athenaeus of Seleucia | 1st century BC | Peripatetic |
Athenodoros Cananites | 1st century BC | Stoic |
Athenodoros Cordylion | 2nd /1st century BC | Stoic |
Athenodorus of Soli | 3rd century BC | Stoic |
Attalus | 1st century BC / 1st century AD | Stoic |
Atticus | 2nd century AD | Middle Platonist |
Basilides (Stoic) | 2nd century BC | Stoic | Denied the existence of incorporeal entities |
Basilides the Epicurean | 3rd / 2nd century BC | Epicurean | Succeeded Dionysius of Lamptrai as the head of the Epicurean school at Athens |
Batis of Lampsacus | 3rd century BC | Epicurean |
Bion of Borysthenes | 4th / 3rd century BC | Cynic | Once was a slave, later to be released |
Boethus of Sidon | 1st century BC | Peripatetic |
Boethus of Sidon (Stoic) | 2nd century BC | Stoic |
Bolus of Mendes | fl. 3rd century BC | Pythagorean |
Brontinus | fl. 6th century BC | Pythagorean |
Bryson of Achaea | fl. 330 BC | Megarian |
Callicles | 5th century BCE | Sophist? |
Calliphon | 2nd century BC | Peripatetic |
Calliphon of Croton | 6th century BC | Pythagorean |
Callistratus | fl. 3rd century AD | Sophist |
Carneades | c. 214 BC – 129/8 BC | Academic skeptic |
Carneiscus | c. 300 BC | Epicurean |
Cassius Longinus | c. 213–273 | Middle Platonist |
Cebes | c. 430–350 BC | Pythagorean |
Celsus | 2nd century |
Cercidas | 3rd century BC | Cynic |
Cercops | Pythagorean |
Chaerephon | Socratic |
Chamaeleon | Peripatetic |
Charmadas | 164 BC - c. 95 BC | Academic skeptic |
Chrysanthius | fl. 4th century | Neoplatonic |
Chrysippus | Stoic |
Cleanthes | Stoic |
Clearchus of Soli | Peripatetic |
Cleinias of Tarentum | Pythagorean |
Cleomedes | Stoic |
Cleomenes | Cynic |
Clinomachus | Megarian |
Clitomachus | 187 BC - 109 BC | Academic skeptic |
Colotes | Epicurean |
Crantor | born c. 350 BC | Academic Platonist |
Crates of Athens | died 268-265 BC | Academic Platonist |
Crates of Mallus | Stoic |
Crates of Thebes | Cynic |
Cratippus of Pergamon | Peripatetic |
Cratylus | Ephesian |
Crescens the Cynic | Cynic |
Crinis | Stoic |
Critolaus | Peripatetic |
Cronius | Neopythagorean |
Damascius | born c. 458, died after 538 | Neoplatonic |
Damis | Neopythagorean |
Damo | Pythagorean |
Dardanus of Athens | Stoic |
Demetrius Lacon | Epicurean |
Demetrius Phalereus | Peripatetic |
Demetrius of Amphipolis | fl. 4th century BC | Academic Platonist |
Demetrius the Cynic | Cynic |
Democrates | Pythagorean? |
Democritus | Presocratic, Atomist |
Demonax | Cynic |
Dexippus | fl. 350 | Neoplatonic |
Diagoras of Melos | Sophist |
Dicaearchus | Peripatetic |
Dio Chrysostom | Sophist |
Diocles of Cnidus | fl. 3rd or 2nd century BC? | Academic Platonist |
Diodorus Cronus | Megarian |
Diodorus of Adramyttium | fl. 1st century BC | Academic skeptic |
Diodorus of Aspendus | Pythagorean |
Diodorus of Tyre | Peripatetic |
Diodotus | Stoic |
Diogenes of Apollonia | Presocratic |
Diogenes of Babylon | Stoic |
Diogenes of Oenoanda | Epicurean |
Diogenes of Seleucia | Epicurean |
Diogenes of Sinope | Cynic |
Diogenes of Tarsus | Epicurean |
Dionysius of Chalcedon | Megarian |
Dionysius of Cyrene | Stoic |
Dionysius of Lamptrai | Epicurean |
Dionysius the Renegade | Stoic |
Dio of Alexandria | fl. 1st century BC | Academic skeptic |
Diotima of Mantinea |
Diotimus | Stoic |
Domninus of Larissa | c. 420 - c. 480 | Neoplatonic |
Echecrates | Pythagorean |
Ecphantus | Pythagorean |
Empedocles | Presocratic, Pluralist |
Epicharmus of Kos | Pythagorean |
Epictetus | Stoic | wrote The Enchiridion, a handbook of Stoic ethical advice |
Epicurus | Epicurean | said that the purpose of philosophy was to attain tranquility characterized by ataraxia |
Eubulides | Megarian |
Euclid of Megara | Megarian |
Eudemus of Rhodes | Peripatetic |
Eudorus of Alexandria | Peripatetic |
Eudoxus of Cnidus | 410/408 BC – 355/347 BC | Academic Platonist |
Euenus | Sophist |
Euphantus | Megarian |
Euphraeus |
Euphrates | Stoic |
Eurytus | Pythagorean |
Eusebius of Myndus | fl. 4th century | Neoplatonic |
Eustathius of Cappadocia | c. 400 | Neoplatonic |
Evander | fl. c. 215 - c. 205 | Academic skeptic |
Favorinus | Academic skeptic |
Gaius the Platonist | fl. 2nd century | Middle Platonist |
Geminus | Stoic |
Gorgias | Sophist |
Hagnon of Tarsus | fl. 2nd century BC | Academic skeptic |
Hecataeus of Abdera | Pyrrhonist |
Hecato of Rhodes | Stoic |
Hegesias of Cyrene | Cyrenaic |
Hegesinus of Pergamon | fl. c. 160 BC | Academic skeptic |
Hegias | fl. c. 500 | Neoplatonic |
Heliodorus of Alexandria | fl. 5th century | Neoplatonic |
Heraclides Lembus |
Heraclides Ponticus | 387 BC - 312 BC | Academic Platonist |
Heraclitus | Presocratic, Ephesian | claimed that "You cannot step in the same river twice" and "All is fire." |
Heraclius | Cynic |
Herillus of Carthage | Stoic |
Hermagoras of Amphipolis | Stoic |
Hermarchus | Epicurean |
Hermias | born c. 410 - died c. 450 | Neoplatonic |
Herminus | Peripatetic |
Hermippus of Smyrna | Peripatetic |
Hermotimus of Clazomenae |
Hicetas | Pythagorean |
Hierius | fl c. 500 | Neoplatonic |
Hierocles of Alexandria | fl. c. 430 | Neoplatonic |
Hierocles (Stoic) | Stoic |
Hieronymus of Rhodes | Peripatetic |
Himerius | Sophist |
Hipparchia of Maroneia | Cynic |
Hippasus | Pythagorean |
Hippias | Sophist |
Hippo | Presocratic |
Horus | Cynic |
Hypatia of Alexandria | born 350-370 – 415 | Neoplatonic |
Iamblichus | c. 245-c. 325 | Neoplatonic |
Ichthyas | Megarian |
Idomeneus of Lampsacus | Epicurean |
Ion of Chios | Pythagorean |
Isidore of Alexandria | fl. c. 475 | Neoplatonic |
Jason of Nysa | Stoic |
Lacydes of Cyrene | before 241 - c. 205 BC | Academic skeptic |
Leonteus of Lampsacus | Epicurean |
Leontion | Epicurean |
Leucippus | Presocratic, Atomist |
Lyco of Iasos | Pythagorean |
Lyco of Troas | Peripatetic |
Lycophron | Sophist |
Lysis of Taras | Pythagorean |
Marinus of Neapolis | born c. 450 | Neoplatonic |
Maximus of Ephesus | died 372 | Neoplatonic |
Maximus of Tyre | fl. 2nd century | Middle Platonist |
Meleager of Gadara | Cynic |
Melissus of Samos | Presocratic, Eleatic |
Menedemus | Eretrian |
Menedemus of Pyrrha | fl. c. 350 BC | Academic Platonist |
Menedemus the Cynic | Cynic |
Menippus | Cynic |
Metrocles | Cynic |
Metrodorus of Athens |
Metrodorus of Chios | Atomist |
Metrodorus of Cos | Pythagorean |
Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the elder) | Presocratic |
Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the younger) | Epicurean |
Metrodorus of Stratonicea | fl. 2nd century BC | Academic skeptic |
Mnesarchus of Athens | Stoic |
Moderatus of Gades | Neopythagorean |
Monimus | Cynic |
Myia | Pythagorean |
Nausiphanes | Atomist |
Nicarete of Megara | Megarian |
Nicolaus of Damascus |
Nicomachus | Neopythagorean |
Nicomachus (son of Aristotle) | Peripatetic |
Numenius of Apamea | fl. c. 275 | Neopythagorean |
Nymphidianus of Smyrna | fl. c. 360 | Neoplatonic |
Ocellus Lucanus | Pythagorean |
Oenomaus of Gadara | Cynic |
Olympiodorus the Elder | Peripatetic |
Olympiodorus the Younger | c. 495-570 | Neoplatonic |
Onasander | fl. 1st century | Middle Platonist |
Onatas | Pythagorean |
Origen the Pagan | fl. c. 250 | Middle Platonist |
Panaetius | Stoic |
Pancrates of Athens | Cynicism |
Panthoides | Megarian |
Parmenides of Elea | Presocratic, Eleatic | held that the only thing that exists is being itself; teacher of Zeno of Elea |
Pasicles of Thebes | Megarian |
Patro the Epicurean | Epicurean |
Peregrinus Proteus | Cynicism |
Persaeus | Stoic |
Phaedo of Elis | Socratic, School of Elis |
Phaedrus | Epicurean |
Phanias of Eresus | Peripatetic |
Phanto of Phlius | Pythagorean |
Philip of Opus | fl. 4th century BC | Academic |
Philiscus of Aegina | Cynicism |
Philiscus of Thessaly | Sophist |
Philo | 20 BC - 50 AD | Middle Platonist |
Philo of Larissa | 159/158 BC – 84/83 BC | Academic skeptic |
Philo the Dialectician | Megarian |
Philodemus | Epicurean |
Philolaus | Pythagorean |
Philonides of Laodicea | Epicurean |
Philostratus | Sophist |
Phintys | Pythagorean |
Plato | 428/427 BC - 348/347 BC | Academic | student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle; famous for the Theory of Forms |
Plotinus | c. 204 – 270 | Neoplatonic |
Plutarch | c. 46 – 120 | Middle Platonist |
Plutarch of Athens | c. 350 – 430 | Neoplatonic |
Polemarchus |
Polemon of Athens | Stoic |
Polemon of Laodicea | Sophist |
Polemon | before 314 BC - 270/269 BC | Academic |
Polus |
Polyaenus of Lampsacus | Epicurean |
Polystratus | Epicurean |
Porphyry | 234 – c. 305 | Neoplatonic | taught by Plotinus; wrote the Isagoge, an introduction to Aristotle's "Categories", |
Posidonius | Stoic |
Potamo of Alexandria | Eclecticism |
Praxiphanes | Peripatetic |
Priscian of Lydia | fl. c. 550 | Neoplatonic |
Priscus of Epirus | c. 305-c. 395 | Neoplatonic |
Proclus | 412 – 485 | Neoplatonic |
Proclus of Laodicea |
Proclus Mallotes | Stoic |
Prodicus | Sophist |
Protagoras | Sophist |
Ptolemy-el-Garib | Peripatetic |
Pyrrho | Pyrrhonist | credited as being the first skeptic philosopher |
Pythagoras | Pythagorean |
Sallustius | Neoplatonic |
Sallustius of Emesa | Cynicism |
Satyrus | Peripatetic |
Secundus the Silent | Cynicism |
Sextus of Chaeronea |
Sextus Empiricus | Pyrrhonist |
Simmias of Thebes | Pythagorean |
Simon the Shoemaker | Socratic |
Simplicius of Cilicia | c. 490 - c. 560 | Neoplatonic |
Siro | Epicurean |
Socrates | Socratic |
Sopater of Apamea | died before 337 | Neoplatonic |
Sosigenes | Peripatetic |
Sosipatra | fl. c. 325 | Neoplatonic |
Sotion | Neopythagorean |
Speusippus | c. 407 BC – 339 BC | Academic |
Sphaerus | Stoic |
Stilpo | Megarian |
Strato of Lampsacus | Peripatetic |
Syrianus | died c. 437 | Neoplatonic |
Telauges | Pythagorean |
Telecles of Phocis | died 167/166 BC | Academic skeptic |
Teles the Cynic | Cynicism |
Thales | Presocratic, Milesian | the first philosopher; held that the first principle (arche) is water; one of the Seven Sages of Greece |
Theagenes of Patras | Cynicism |
Theano | Pythagorean |
Themista of Lampsacus | Epicurean |
Themistius | Neoplatonic |
Theodorus of Asine | fl. 3rd century | Neoplatonic |
Theodorus the Atheist | Cyrenaic |
Theon of Smyrna | Neopythagorean |
Theophrastus | Peripatetic |
Thrasymachus | Sophist |
Thrasymachus of Corinth | Megarian |
Timaeus of Locri | Pythagorean |
Timaeus the Sophist | fl. between 1st and 4th centuries | Middle Platonist |
Timon | Pyrrhonist |
Timycha | Pythagorean |
Tisias | Sophist |
Xenarchus of Seleucia | Peripatetic |
Xeniades | Pyrrhonist |
Xenocrates | c. 396 BC – 314 BC | Academic |
Xenophanes of Colophon | Presocratic, Eleatic | claimed that, if oxen were able to imagine gods, those gods would be in the image of oxen |
Xenophilus | Pythagorean | friend and teacher of Aristoxenus |
Xenophon |
Zenobius | Sophist |
Zenodotus | fl. c. 475 | Neoplatonic | described as "the darling of Proclus" |
Zeno of Citium | Stoic | founder of the Stoic school of philosophy |
Zeno of Elea | Presocratic, Eleatic | famous creator of Zeno's paradoxes |
Zeno of Sidon | Epicurean | sometimes termed the "leading Epicurean" |
Zeno of Tarsus | Stoic |
1. ^Aristotle, Metaphysics Alpha, 983b18.
2. ^Russell, Bertrand. "The History of Western Philosophy." 1945