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Also Known As	Phaenias • Phainias
Flourished	c.300 BCE -
Subjects Of Study	logic

Marble bust of Aristotle with a beard and draped robe, showing detailed facial features and wavy hair, set against a dark background.

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Theophrastus

Theophrastus

Greek philosopher

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Aristoxenus

Greek philosopher

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Straton Of Lampsacus

Greek philosopher

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Critolaus

Greek philosopher

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Diodorus Cronus

Greek philosopher

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Dicaearchus

Greek philosopher

Engraved portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz with long curly hair, wearing a buttoned coat and cravat, facing forward.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

German philosopher and mathematician

Socrates

Socrates

Greek philosopher

The Greek philosopher Plato

Plato

Greek philosopher

Thucydides manuscript

Thucydides

Greek historian

Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.

Xenophon

Greek historian

Herodotus, detail of a Roman herm probably copied from a Greek original of the first half of the 4th century bce; in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.

Herodotus

Greek historian

Marble statue of Polybius seated with one arm raised, draped in classical robes, against a blue sky in Vienna, Austria. The base is inscribed with the name Polybius.

Polybius

Greek historian

Strabo

Strabo

Greek geographer and historian

Bronze bust of Epicurus with a full beard and draped clothing, displayed on a round inscribed base at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

Epicurus

Greek philosopher

Democritus

Democritus

Greek philosopher

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St. Justin Martyr

Christian apologist

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Xenocrates

Greek philosopher

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Epictetus

Greek philosopher