Diogenes Laertius

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Diogenes Laërtius, the biographer of the Greek philosophers, is supposed by some to have received his surname from the town of Laerte in Cilicia, a...
Diogenes Of Sinope

Diogenes Of Sinope

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Diogenes "the Cynic", Greek philosopher, was born in Sinope (modern day Sinop, Turkey) about 412 BC (according to other sources 399 BC), and died...
Zeno Of Citium

Zeno Of Citium

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Zeno of Citium was a Greek philosopher from Citium (Gr: Κίτιον), Cyprus. Zeno belongs to the Stoic school of thought of the Hellenistic period...
Arcesilaus

Arcesilaus

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Arcesilaus was a Greek philosopher and founder of the New, or Middle, Academy-the sceptical phase. Born in Pitane in Aeolis, he was trained by...

Menippus

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Menippus, of Gadara in Coele-Syria, Greek cynic and satirist, lived during the 3rd century BC. According to Diogenes Laërtius (vi. 8) he was o...
Heraclides Ponticus

Heraclides Ponticus

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Heraclides Ponticus (387 BC-312 BC), also known as Herakleides, was a Greek philosopher who lived and died at Heraclea Pontica, now Karadeniz...
Crates Of Thebes

Crates Of Thebes

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Crates of Thebes (c. 368/365 - c. 288/285 BCE), a Hellenistic philosopher, was one of the Cynics and the teacher of Zeno of Citium. Crates was from...
Zeno Of Sidon

Zeno Of Sidon

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Zeno of Sidon, Epicurean philosopher of the 1st century BC and contemporary of Cicero. In the "De Natura Deorum" (1. 34), Cicero states that Zeno...

Archelaus

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Archelaus was a Greek philosopher of the 5th century BCE, born probably in Athens, though Diogenes Laërtius (ii. 16) says he was born in Miletus. H...
Isidore Of Alexandria

Isidore Of Alexandria

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Isidore of Alexandria was a Greek philosopher and one of the last of the Neoplatonists. He lived in Athens and Alexandria toward the end of the 5th...