Name | | -->Life | | -->School | Notes |
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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 | Christian convert who studied under Hierocles |
Aenesidemus | 1st century BC? | Pyrrhonist | wrote a book called Pyrrhonist Discourses which became a central text for the Pyrrhonists |
Aesara | 5th/4th century BC | Pythagorean | wrote On Human Nature, of which a fragment is preserved by Stobaeus |
Aeschines of Neapolis | 2nd/1st century BC | Academic skeptic | shared the leadership of the Academy at Athens together with Charmadas and Clitomachus about 110 BC |
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 | Cynic | known for his severe asceticism and teacher of Demonax |
Agathosthenes | uncertain date | geographer, historian or philosopher | referred to by Tzetzes as his authority in matters connected with geography. |
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 |
Alcibiades | 450-404 BC | Socratic | Athenian General and Politician |
Alcinous | 2nd century AD? | Middle Platonist |
Alcmaeon of Croton | 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 | tutored the emperor Nero |
Alexander of Aphrodisias | 2nd/3rd century AD | Peripatetic | 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 | first Greek to attempt the problem of squaring the circle |
Anaxilaus | 1st century BC / 1st century AD | Pythagorean | Banished from Rome for practising magic |
Anaximander | 7th/6th century BC | Milesian | First to conceive a mechanical model of the world |
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; student of Plato |
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 | Cynic | |
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 |
| 4th century BC | Platonist | |
| 1st century AD | Epicurean | |
Boethus of Sidon | 1st century BC | Peripatetic | |
Boethus of Sidon | 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 – 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 | c. 470/460 – 403/399 BCE | Socratic | |
Chamaeleon | 350-275 BC | Peripatetic | |
Charmadas | 164 - c. 95 BC | Academic skeptic | |
Chrysanthius | fl. 4th century | Neoplatonic | |
Chrysippus | 279-206 BC | Stoic | |
Cleanthes | 330-230 BC | Stoic | |
Clearchus of Soli | 4th/3rd century BC (fl. 320 BC) | Peripatetic | |
Cleinias of Tarentum | 4th century BC | Pythagorean | |
Cleomedes | | Stoic | |
Cleomenes | fl. c. 300 BC | Cynic | |
Clinomachus | 4th century BC | Megarian | |
Clitomachus | 187 - 109 BC | Academic skeptic | |
Colotes | 320-268 BC | Epicurean | |
Crantor | born c. 350 BC | Academic Platonist | |
Crates of Athens | died 268-265 BC | Academic Platonist | |
Crates of Mallus | fl. 2nd century BC | Stoic | |
Crates of Thebes | c. 365 – c. 285 BC | Cynic | husband of Hipparchia of Maroneia |
Cratippus of Pergamon | 1st century BC | Peripatetic | friend of Cicero |
Cratylus | 5th century BC | Ephesian | |
Crescens the Cynic | 2nd century | Cynic | |
Crinis | 1st/2nd century BC | Stoic | |
Critolaus | c. 200 – c. 118 BC | Peripatetic | |
Cronius | fl. 2nd century A.D. | Neopythagorean | |
Damascius | born c. 458, died after 538 | Neoplatonic | |
Damis | 1st/2nd century A.D. | Neopythagorean | |
Damo | 5th century BC | Pythagorean | reportedly the daughter of Pythagoras and Theano |
Dardanus of Athens | 160-85 BC | Stoic | one of the several leaders of Stoa after the death of Panaetius |
Demetrius Lacon | fl. late 2nd century BC | Epicurean |
Demetrius of Amphipolis | fl. 4th century BC | Academic Platonist | |
Demetrius Phalereus | c. 350 – c. 280 BC | Peripatetic | Governed Athens |
Demetrius the Cynic | fl. 1st century | Cynic | |
Democrates | unknown | Pythagorean? | |
Democritus | c. 460 – c. 370 BC | Presocratic, Atomist | |
Demonax | | Cynic | |
Dexippus | fl. 350 | Neoplatonic | |
Diagoras of Melos | | Sophist | |
Dicaearchus | | Peripatetic | |
Dio of Alexandria | fl. 1st century BC | Academic skeptic | |
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 | 412/404 - 323 BC | Cynic | Lived in a clay wine jar |
Diogenes of Tarsus | | Epicurean | |
Dionysius of Chalcedon | | Megarian | |
Dionysius of Cyrene | | Stoic | |
Dionysius of Lamptrai | | Epicurean | |
Dionysius the Renegade | | Stoic | abandoned Stoicism for Cyrenaicism |
Dios | fl. 7th century BC ? | Pythagorean | |
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 – 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 - 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) | 2nd century CE | Stoic | |
Hieronymus of Rhodes | c. 290 – c. 230 BC | Peripatetic | |
Himerius | | Sophist | |
Hipparchia of Maroneia | fl. c. 325 BC | Cynic | Genus of butterflies, Hipparchia (butterfly), named after her |
Hippasus | | Pythagorean | |
Hippias | | Sophist | |
Hippo | 5th century BC | 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 | | Cynic | |
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 | | Cynic | |
Persaeus | | Stoic | |
Phaedo of Elis | | Eretrian | Originally founded the School of Elis; it was later transferred to Eretria by his pupil Menedemus. |
Phaedrus | | Epicurean | |
Phanias of Eresus | | Peripatetic | |
Phanto of Phlius | | Pythagorean | |
Philip of Opus | fl. 4th century BC | Academic | |
Philiscus of Aegina | | Cynic | |
Philiscus of Thessaly | | Sophist | |
Philo | 20 BC - 50 AD | Middle Platonist | |
Philo of Larissa | 159/158 – 84/83 BC | Academic skeptic | |
Philo the Dialectician | | Megarian | |
Philodemus | | Epicurean | |
Philolaus | | Pythagorean | |
Philonides of Laodicea | | Epicurean | |
Philostratus | | Sophist | |
Phintys | | Pythagorean | |
Plato | 428/427 - 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 Athens (scholarch) | before 314 - 270/269 BC | Academic |
Polemon of Laodicea | | Sophist | |
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 | fl. c. 300 AD | Peripatetic | |
Pyrrho | | Pyrrhonist | credited as being the first skeptic philosopher |
Pythagoras | c. 570 – c. 495 BC | Pythagorean | Credited with discovering the Pythagorean theorem |
Sallustius | | Neoplatonic | |
Sallustius of Emesa | | Cynic | |
Satyrus | | Peripatetic | |
Secundus the Silent | | Cynic | |
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 | c. 470–399 BC | Socratic | considered one of the founders of Western philosophy; credited as being the first moral philosopher |
Sopater of Apamea | died before 337 | Neoplatonic | |
Sosigenes | | Peripatetic | |
Sosipatra | fl. c. 325 | Neoplatonic | |
Sotion | | Neopythagorean | |
Speusippus | c. 407 – 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 | | Cynic | |
Thales | c. 626/623 – c. 548/545 BC | Presocratic, Milesian | first philosopher; held that the first principle (arche) is water; one of the Seven Sages of Greece |
Theagenes of Patras | | Cynic | |
Theano | | Pythagorean | |
Themista of Lampsacus | | Epicurean | |
Themistius | | Neoplatonic | |
Theodorus of Asine | fl. 3rd century | Neoplatonic | |
Theodorus the Atheist | c. 340 – c. 250 BCE | 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 – 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 | 2nd century A.D. | Sophist | flourished in the times of the emperor Hadrian |
Zenodotus | fl. c. 475 | Neoplatonic | described as "the darling of Proclus" |
Zeno of Citium | 334-262 BC | Stoic | founder of the Stoic school of philosophy |
Zeno of Elea | | Presocratic, Eleatic | famous creator of Zeno's paradoxes |
Zeno of Sidon | 150-75 BC | Epicurean | sometimes termed the "leading Epicurean" |
Zeno of Tarsus | fl. 200 BC | Stoic | | |