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A sophist was a man who made his living by teaching things that would be useful to them and are not taught in regular curriculum. As ther...

Leucippus and Democritus are considered to be the founders of Atomism. Though Democritus place is later in the chronology, along with Soc...

Anaxagoras was born at Clazomenae, in Ionia, about the year 500 B.C. He spent about thirty years of his life in Athens around 462 B.C to ...

Attica at the beginning of the historical period was a self supporting agricultural region. It's capital was a small town inhabited by ...

Empedocles lived around 440 BC in Acreages’, on the south coast of Sicily. He was a younger contemporary of Parmenides, though his doctri...

Parmenides was native of Elea, in southern Italy. His date is uncertain but it is said that young Socrates met him when Parmenides was 65...

Xenophanes’ date is uncertain between c 570 - 475 BCE. He was from Colophon, a city in the region of Lydia, but lived most of his life i...

In 6th century BC, Island of Samos was a commercial rival to Miletus. Polycrates became the tyrant of Samos in around 535 BC. Polycrates...

Greek philosophy started in Miletus in Asia Minor (present day Turkey) with Thales. Miletus like other commercial cities of Ionia underwent...

A philosopher’s thought is influenced by the surrounding in which he lives. Just like a particular type of soil supports particular plants...