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80Greek Philosopher: Thales
Greek philosopher, astronomer and geometrician, born in Miletus, Asia Minor. Thales is the first philosopher of whom we have record who set himself the problem of explaining the universe in terms of one...
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77Greek Philosopher: Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras was a famous Greek philosopher and noted scientist of the Ionic School, among whose pupils were Socrates, Pericles and Euripides. According to his explanation of the universe, the permanent...
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94Greek Philosopher: Democritus
The Greek philosopher to whom the conception of the Atomic theory is attributed. He visualised atoms - the word is Greek for 'indivisable' - as moving through space, then colliding to form the universe and...
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65The School Of Athens
In the "Stanza della Segnatura" (the Signature’s Room), room used as library and where the Pope Julius II signed the decrees of the ecclesiastical court, Rafael painted some frescos which represent the four...
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73Greek Philosopher: Epictetus
Epictetus was one of the greatest of the Stoic philosophers. Born Phrygia, in Asia Minor, sometime between 50 to 55 AD. He became a slave in Rome, but (like many slaves at that time) he was given a liberal...
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76Greek Philosopher: Heraclitus
Heraclitus was an early famous Greek philosopher, and a leading member of the so-called pre-Socratics. He was a descendant of the royal line of his native city and it is probably that he help temporal and...
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89Greek Philosopher: Diogenes
The celebrated Greek cynic philosopher who is said to have lived in a tub, wearing the coarsest clothing and living on the plainest food. Many of his sayings have been preseved, and serve for occasional...
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87Greek Philosopher: Socrates
Born in Athens at the peak of the Athenian civilization. Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides were his contemporaries. He served for several years as a soldier. As a member of the Athenian Senate, he refused to...
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88Greek Philosopher: Epicurus
The founder of the Epicurean philosophy in Athens in 306 BC, which taught that virtue should be followed because it leads to happiness and that good was pleasure and evil was pain. He began his studies with a...
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77Greek Philosopher: Parmenides
Greek philosopher of Elea, founder of the Eleatic school which believed in unity and continuity of being and unreality of change or motion. Parmenides was the son of Pyres and a native of Elea. Plato, in...
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