Name Life School Notes

Acrion
fifth / 4th
century BC
Pythagorean visited by Plato
Adrastus of
Aphrodisias
2nd century
AD
Peripatetic
wrote commentaries on Aristotle's works and
a commentary on Plato's Timaeus
Aedesia 5th century Neoplatonic
wife of Hermias, and mother
of Ammonius and Heliodorus
Aedesius
3rd / 4th
century
Neoplatonic
studied under Iamblichus before founding his
own school in Pergamum
Aeneas of Gaza
5th / 6th
century
Neoplatonic
a Christian convert who studied
under Hierocles
Aenesidemus
1st century
BC?
Pyrrhonist
wrote a book called Pyrrhonist
Discourses which became a central text for the
skeptics
Aesara
5th / 4th
century BC
Pythagorean

Aeschines of
Neapolis
2nd / 1st
century BC
Academic skeptic

Aeschines of
Sphettus
5th / 4th
century BC
Socratic
[disambiguation needed]

part of Socrates' circle and likely present at his
death
Aetius
4th century
AD
Peripatetic
Antiochean convert to Christianity who
studied in Alexandria
Agapius
5th / 6th
century AD
Neoplatonic
studied under Marinus of Neapolis. known for
his learning
Agathobulus
1st / 2nd
century AD
Cynicism
Known for his severe asceticism and teacher
of Demonax
Agathosthenes

Agrippa the
Skeptic
1st / 2nd
century AD
Pyrrhonist
thought to be the creator of the "five grounds
of doubt"
Albinus
2nd century
AD
Middle Platonist

Name Life School Notes
Alcinous
2nd century
AD?
Middle Platonist

Alcmaeon of
Croton
5th / 5th
century BC
Pythagorean interested in medicine
Alexamenus of
Teos
5th century
BC?
Socratic
[disambiguation needed]

may have been the first to write philosophical
dialogues
Alexander of
Aegae
1st century
AD
Peripatetic school tutored the emperor Nero
Alexander of
Aphrodisias
2nd / 3rd
century AD
Peripatetic school
influential commentator on the Corpus
Aristotelicum
Alexicrates
1st / 2nd
century AD
Pythagorean

Alexinus
4th / 3rd
century BC
Megarian
founded his own school which did not fare
well
Amelius
3rd century
AD
Neoplatonic student of Plotinus who wrote voluminously
Ammonius
Hermiae
5th / 6th
century AD
Neoplatonic

Ammonius of
Athens
1st century
AD
Middle Platonist teacher of Plutarch
Ammonius Saccas
2nd / 3rd
century AD
Neoplatonic Plotinus' teacher
Basilides (Stoic)
2nd century
BC
Stoic Denied the existence of incorporeal entities
Basilides the
Epicurean
3rd / 2nd
century BC
Epicurean
Succeeded Dionysius of Lamptrai as the head
of the Epicurean school at Athens
Batis of
Lampsacus
3rd century
BC
Epicurean

Bion of
Borysthenes
4th / 3rd
century BC
Cynic Once was a slave, later to be released
Name Life School Notes

Aristotle

4th century
BC

Peripatetic

founder of Peripatetic school
Plato
428/427 BC -
348/347 BC
Academic
student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle;
famous for the Theory of Forms
Porphyry 234 c. 305 Neoplatonic
taught by Plotinus; wrote the Isagoge, an
introduction to Aristotle's "Categories",
Socrates

Socratic[disambiguation
needed]
founding figure of Western philosophy; died
by drinking the hemlock

Thales

Presocratic, Milesian
the first philosopher; held that the first
principle (arche) is water
Xenophanes of
Colophon

Presocratic, Eleatic
claimed that, if oxen were able to imagine
gods, those gods would be in the image of
oxen
Xenophilus

Pythagorean friend and teacher of Aristoxenus
Zenobius

Sophist

Zenodotus fl. c. 475 Neoplatonic described as "the darling of Proclus"
Zeno of Citium

Stoic founder of the Stoic school of philosophy
Zeno of Elea

Presocratic, Eleatic famous creator of Zeno's paradoxes
Zeno of Sidon

Epicurean sometimes termed the "leading Epicurean"