page_title: List of people from Greece
section_title: Ancient period
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Greece / Philosophers / Ancient period
caption_attribution_description: English: Socrates
context_page_description: This is a list of notable Greeks.
context_section_description: Anaxarchus of Abdera (c. 380–320 BCE)
  Anaximander (c. 610–546 BCE)
  Anaximenes of Miletus (c. 585–528 BCE)
  Archimedes (c. 287–212 BCE)
  Aristotle (384–322 BCE)
  Athenagoras of Athens (c. 133–190), early Christian apologist
  Celsus (second century CE)
  Democritus (c. 460–370 BCE)
  Diogenes of Sinope (412–323 BCE)
  Empedocles (490–430 BCE)
  Epictetus (55–c. 135 CE)
  Epicurus (341–270 BCE)
  Epimenides (seventh or sixth century BCE), semi-mythical Greek seer
  Eratosthenes (c. 276–195 BCE), mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist
  Gregory of Nazianzus (c. 329 – 25 January 390)
  Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335–395)
  Hecataeus of Abdera (fourth century BCE)
  Heraclitus (c. 535–475 BCE)
  Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 360–415 CE)
  Irenaeus (c. 140–202 CE)
  Leucippus (fifth century BCE)
  Parmenides (late sixth or early fifth century BCE)
  Pherecydes of Syros (sixth century BCE)
  Plato (c. 427–347 BCE)
  Plotinus (c. 205–270 CE)
  Protagoras (c. 490–420 BCE)
  Pyrrho (c. 360 – c. 270 BC), founder of Pyrrhonism
  Pythagoras (582–496 BCE)
  Sextus Empiricus (c. 160 – c. 210 CE)
  Socrates (470–399 BCE) 
  Thales of Miletus (c. 624–547 BCE)
  Theagenes of Patras (fl. c. 160 CE)
  Theophrastus (c. 371–287 BCE)
  Xenophanes (c. 570–475 BCE)
  Zeno of Citium (333–264 BCE)
  Zeno of Elea (c. 495–430 BC)
caption: Socrates, teacher of Plato, Xenophon, Antisthenes, and Aristippus
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