Pre-Socratic Philosophy

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Anaximander was the author of the first surviving lines of Western philosophy.

Anaximander 

http://www.iep.utm.edu/anaximan/

Anaximenes 

According to the surviving sources on his life, Anaximenes flourished in the mid 6th century BCE and died around 528. http://www.iep.utm.edu/anaximen/
Aristophanes ( English pronunciation: / ˌ æ r ɨ ˈ s t ɒ f ə n iː z / ; Ancient Greek: [aristopʰánɛːs] ; Ἀριστοφάνης , ca. 446 BC – ca. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, [ 2 ] was a comic playwright of ancient Athens . Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristophanes

Aristophanes

Atomists

Eleatics

Heraclitus

Milesians

Parmenides

Parmenides of Elea ( pron.: / p ɑr ˈ m ɛ n ɨ d iː z ə v ˈ ɛ l i ə / ; Ancient Greek : Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης ; fl. early 5th century BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea , a Greek city on the southern coast of Italy . He was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy . The single known work of Parmenides is a poem , On Nature , which has survived only in fragmentary form. In this poem, Parmenides describes two views of reality . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmenides
Pherecydes of Syros

Pluralists

Pythagoreans