TIMELINE FOR ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY

Milesians

Eclipse predicted by Thales 585 B.C.

Anaximander of Clazomenae d. 545 B.C.

Anaximenes fl. 546 B.C.

Heraclitus (fl. Ephesus) d. 480 B.C.

Pythagoreans

Pythagoras (b. Samos, emigrated to southern Italy) fl. 550 B.C.

(Pythagorean societies broken up c. 450 B.C.)

Archytas of Tarentum fl. 400 B.C.

Monists

Parmenides of Elea d. 450 B.C.

Zeno of Elea d. 445 B.C.

Melissus of Samos fl. 441 B.C.

Pluralists

Empedocles (b. Sicily, d. 435 B.C.

travelled to southern Italy and Athens)

Anaxagoras ( b.Clazomenae, resided in Athens) d. 428 B.C.

Democritus (atomist) d. 357 B.C.

Classical philosophy in Athens

Socrates d. 399 B.C.

Plato d. 348 B.C.

Aristotle d. 322 B.C.

Zeno of Cilium (founder of Stoicism) d. 265 B.C.

Epicurus (atomist, hedonist) d. 270 B.C.

Cleanthes (Stoic) d. 232 B.C.

Hellenistic period begins at the death of Aristotle, 322 B.C.

Andronicus of Rhodes fl. 59 B.C.

(editor of works of Aristotle and Theophrastus)

Diogenes Laertius d. 222 A.D.

(wrote Lives of the Philosophers)

Neoplatonism

Plotinus (born in Egypt, settled in Rome) d. 270 A.D

Porphyry (Rome) d. 301 A.D.

Christian philosophy

Clement of Alexandria d. 216 A.D.

Origin (Alexandria) d. 254 A.D.

Augustine (Hippo in North Africa, d. 430 A.D.

converted to Christianity in 387 by Ambrose [Milan])

Academy in Athens closed 529 A.D.

(by order of Christian emperor Justinian)