Mythopoeic Thought in the Greek Tradition
- c. 850-800 BC: Homer
- c. 800 BC: Hesiod
The Pre-socratic Philosophers
- c. 585 BC: Thales of Miletus begins the development of philosophy by speculating about the nature of the "cosmos."
- c. 611-c. 545 BC: Anaximander and Anaximenes
- c. 530: Xenophanes of Colophon
- c. 535-c. 475 BC: Heraclitus of Ephesus
- c. 500-c. 480 BC: Pythagoras of Samos
- c. 500- c. ?425 BC: Anaxagoras
- c. c. 475: Parmenides
- fl. 420: Democritus
The Socratic School
- 469-399 BC: Socrates
- c. 427-347 BC: Plato
- 384-322 BC: Aristotle
The Hellenistic Philosophers
- c. 341-270 BC: Epicurus begins the Epicurean school of philosophy
- c. 335-263 BC: Zeno of Citium begins the Stoic school of philosophy
- fl. 300: Euclid--The Elements of Geometry
- 287-212: Archimedes--
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