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Flourished	99 BCE - 1 BCE
Notable Works	“Pyrrhonian Discourses”

Aristotle

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Plato

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Xenocrates

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Speusippus

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Carneades

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Arcesilaus

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Cleitomachus

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Chrysippus

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Socrates

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Epicurus

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Democritus

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St. Justin Martyr

Christian apologist

Epictetus

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Diogenes

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Archytas of Tarentum

Greek mathematician

Proclus

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Numenius of Apamea

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Poseidonius

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Theophrastus

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Damascius

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