Epicurus

Epicurus

male
atoms, Atomism, Hedonism, Classical humanist, from the North Aegean, Hellenistic Philosophy…greek, ancient greek, greekphilosophy, Ancient Greek philosopher
Epicurus (Greek) (341 BC, Samos - 270 BC, Athens) was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of Epicureanism, a popular school of thought in...
Aristotle

Aristotle

male
philosopher, greek, greek philosopher, Classical Greek philosophy, Logician, physics…greekphilosophy, philosophy, Western philosophy, ancient philosophy, Ancient Greek philosopher
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on diverse subjects, including physics,...
Al-Kindi

Al-Kindi

male, deceased (873)
musician, Astronomer, Peripatetic school, Sunni Muslim scholar of Islam, Islamic mathematics, abbasid…greekphilosophy, greek, Islamic philosophy
"' (c. 801-873 CE), also known by the Latinized version of his name Alkindus"' to the West, was a Muslim Arab scientist, philosopher,...

Prodicus

male
physicist, logoi, Pródikos, Sophism, CEOs, Sophist…greek, ancient greek, greekphilosophy, greek philosopher
Prodicus of Ceos (Greek: Πρόδικος "Pródikos", (c. 465 - 415) was a Greek philosopher, part of the first generation of Sophists. "He was a Sophist i...
Proclus

Proclus

male, deceased (485)
Roman era philosopher, greekphilosophy, Late Antiquity, philosopher, Ancient philosopher, Byzantine philosopher…greek, philosophy
Proclus Lycaeus, was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major Greek philosophers (see Damascius). He set forth one of the most...
Thales

Thales

male
physicist, Seven Sages of Greece, pre-Socratic, Pre-Socratic philosophy, miletus, philosophy…greek, ancient greek, greekphilosophy, Greek tradition
Thales of Miletos, was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Many regard him as the first philosopher in the Greek...

Philo

male, deceased (50)
Yedidia, Hellenized Jewish, Hellenistic Judaism, Jews and Judaism-related controversy, Christology, logos…Ancient Jewish Greek history, greekphilosophy
Philo (20 BC - 50 AD), known also as Philo of Alexandria and as Philo Judaeus And as Yedidia, was a Hellenized Jewish philosopher born in...
Julia Annas

Julia Annas

female
University of Arizona, Regents Professor, Ph.D., American, epistemology, philosophy…greekphilosophy
Julia Annas (Ph.D., Harvard), Regents Professor of Philosophy, was at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, for fifteen years before coming to the University...

Pantaenus

male
sicilian, Gospel of Matthew, Egyptian, preacher, greek, Christian…greekphilosophy
Saint Pantaenus (d. ca. 216) was a Christian theologian who founded the Catechetical School of Alexandria in 190 c.e. This school is known as the...
Alexander Nehamas

Alexander Nehamas

male (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Nietzsche Life as Literature, phaedo, University of Pittsburgh, comparative literature, Aesthetics, Literary theory…greekphilosophy, philosophy
Alexander Nehamas (born 1946) is a professor of philosophy and comparative literature at Princeton University. He works on Greek philosophy,...