AMONG THE GREEKS 



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The Greek Periods^ 



GENERAL CONCEP- 

 TION OF NATURE 



Mythological. 



FiHST Period. 



Naturalistic, 



Earlier Materialistic, 



Second Period. 

 Teleological. 



DIVISIONS OF THE SCHOOLS 



The Prehistoric Traditions. 

 I. The Three Earliest Schools. 



The lonians. Thales (640- 

 546), Anaximander (611- 

 547), Anaximenes (588- 

 524), Diogenes (440- ). 



The Pythagoreans. (580- 

 430.) 



The Eleatics. Xenophanes 

 (576-480), Parmenides 

 (544- ). 



II. The Physicists. 



Heraclitus (535-475), Em- 

 pedocles (495-435), De- 

 mocritus (450- ), Anax- 

 agoras (500-428). 



Socrates (470-399), Plato 

 (427-347). 



Aristotle (384-322). 



The Peripatetics, or post- 

 Aristotelian school, includ- 

 ing Theophrastus, Preaxa- 

 goras, Herophilus, Erasis- 

 tratus. 



Th] 



Period, A. I. The Stoics. (304-205.) 



II. The Epicureans. Epicurus 

 Later Materialistic. (341-270), Lucretius (99- 



55). 

 III. The Sceptics. Pyrrho (360- 

 270). 

 B. I. Eclecticism. Galen (131- 

 201). 

 lAfter Zeller: History of the Greek Philosophy. 



