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Born c.490 BCE • Agrigento • Italy
Died 430 BCE • Peloponnese • Greece
Subjects Of Study cosmology • element • reincarnation • strife
Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras
Greek philosopher
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher
Xenophanes
Greek poet and philosopher
Thales of Miletus
Greek philosopher
Anaximander
Anaximander
Greek philosopher
Anaximenes Of Miletus
Greek philosopher
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Paul Shorey
American scholar
Ion of Chios
Greek poet
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
Homer
Homer
Greek poet
Pindar
Greek poet
Lucian
Greek writer
Hesiod
Hesiod
Greek poet
Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence: Sappho and Alcaeus
Alcaeus
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Simonides of Ceos
Greek poet
Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence: Sappho and Alcaeus
Sappho
Greek poet
Archilochus
Greek author
Anacreon, Roman copy of a 5th-century-bc bust by Phidias; in the Louvre, Paris.
Anacreon
Greek poet
Fragment of Bacchylides' work, from a papyrus roll of the 2nd century ad; in the British Museum, London.
Bacchylides
Greek lyric poet

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