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This thinker, forced to drink hemlock in 399 BCE, never wrote down his teachings but influenced Western thought through his famous student's dialogues.
- Anaximander
- Pythagoras
- Socrates
- Thales
The Academy, often called the first university in the Western world, was founded in Athens around 387 BCE by this student of a famous executed philosopher.
- Plato
- Xenophon
- Aristotle
- Antisthenes
This philosopher tutored Alexander the Great and later founded his own school called the Lyceum in Athens.
- Isocrates
- Aristotle
- Speusippus
- Plato
Ancient tradition credits this pre-Socratic thinker from Miletus with predicting a solar eclipse and proposing that water is the fundamental substance of all things.
- Empedocles
- Thales
- Heraclitus
- Parmenides
This school of philosophy, founded by Zeno of Citium around 300 BCE, taught that virtue and wisdom come from living in harmony with nature and controlling one's emotions.
- Epicureanism
- Cynicism
- Skepticism
- Stoicism
This philosophical school, often confused with simple pleasure-seeking, actually taught that the highest good is modest pleasures, friendship, and freedom from anxiety.
- Cynicism
- Epicureanism
- Hedonism
- Stoicism
The phrase "Know thyself" was inscribed at the Temple of Apollo at this famous oracle site, becoming a cornerstone of Greek philosophical thought.
- Delphi
- Olympia
- Dodona
- Epidaurus
This famous parable in the Republic describes chained prisoners who mistake flickering shadows for reality, illustrating humanity's ignorance of true knowledge.
- The Ring of Gyges
- Allegory of the Cave
- The Ship of State
- Allegory of the Chariot
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