Chronology: Early Greek Intellectual Schools

Kenneth W. Harl, Ph.D.
History/Classics 100

Chronology: Early Greek Intellectual Schools

THE MILESIAN SCHOOL

THALES of Miletus (c. 640-548 B.C.)
Anaximander of Miletus (611-547 B.C.)
Anaximenes of Miletus (flourit c. 525 B.C.; died c. 498 B.C.)

HERACLITUS of Ephesus, "The Weeping Philosopher" (flourit c. 510 B.C.; died c. 478-470 B.C.)

THE PYTHAGORIAN SCHOOL

PYTHAGORAS of Samos (settled in Croton in Southern Italy c. 532 B.C.; died c. 495 B.C.; followers established influential school)

ELEATIC SCHOOL

Xenophanes of Colophon (flourit c. 530 B.C.)
Parmenides (flourit c. 504-500 B.C.)

Empedocles (494-434 B.C.)
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (born c. 500 B.C.; close friend of Pericles; tried for impiety & exiled c. 434 B.C.)

ATOMISTS

Leucippus (born c. 460 B.C.)
Democritus (born c. 450 B.C.)

SOPHISTS

Corax of Syracuse (born c. 450 B.C.)
Gorgias of Leontini (c. 465-380 B.C.)
Protagoras of Ceus (c. 480-410 B.C.)
Critias (c. 445?-403 B.C.)

THE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS

SOCRATES (470?-399 B.C.)
PLATO (427-347 B.C.)
ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

FIRST HISTORIANS

Hecataeus of Miletus (flourit c. 500 B.C.)
HERODOTUS (c. 490-430 B.C.)
THUCYDIDES (c. 460-400 B.C.)

Dr. Kenneth W. Harl
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Classical Greece, Rome and Byzantium
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