Other Early Greek Thinkers
This list includes several men, particularly the Seven Sages, who appear to have been practical politicians and sources of epigrammatic wisdom, rather than speculative thinkers or philosophers in the modern sense.
- Seven Sages of Greece
- Solon (c. 594 BCE)
- Chilon of Sparta (c. 560 BCE)
- Thales (c. 585 BCE)
- Bias of Priene (c. 570 BCE)
- Cleobulus of Rhodes (c. 600 BCE)
- Pittacus of Mitylene (c. 600 BCE)
- Periander (625-585 BCE)
- Aristeas of Proconnesus (7th century BCE ?)
- Pherecydes of Syros (c. 540 BCE)
- Anacharsis (c. 590 BCE)
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