Here you will find an alphabetical list, sorted by used name (i.e. Seneca) as opposed to full name (i.e. Lucius Annaeus Seneca), along with a short detail or two of their lives, as well as any of their works quoted or paraphrased on this site. Each name is a link to the Wikipedia page on that person.

  • Antisthenes (c. 445 – c. 365 BC)
    • The pupil who developed the ethical side of Socrates teachings, credited with being the founder of Cynic Philosophy
    • Works: His lectures, whereas he never wrote any teachings down
  • Crates [Crates of Thebes] (c. 365 – c. 285 BC)
    • A Cynic philosopher who cast aside his inherited wealth, was respected by Athenians and was the teacher of the founder of Stoicism: Zeno of Citium
    • Works: fragments including a description of the ideal Cynic state
  • Epictetus (c. 55 – 135 AD)
    • Originally a slave, he began teaching Stoicism after gaining his freedom and founding a school of philosophy in Nicopolis, Greece
    • Works: Enchiridion, Discourses, other literary fragments
  • Marcus Aurelius [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus] (121 – 180 AD)
    • Adopted by Aurelius Antoninus, Hadrian’s adopted heir, he was the only Roman philosopher-emperor, father of Commodus, his successor
    • Works: Meditations
  • Seneca [Lucius Annaeus Seneca] [Seneca the Younger] (c. 4 BC – 65 AD)
    • Writer, statesman, advocate, philosopher, he was appointed as the young Nero’s tutor and was eventually forced to suicide by Nero himself
    • Works: Moral Letters to Lucilius
  • Socrates (c. 470 – 399 BC)
    • One of the first of Western philosophers and the first moral philosopher, forced to suicide after being wrongfully found guilty of impiety
    • Works: His lectures, whereas he never wrote any teachings down
  • Theognis [Theognis of Megara] (c. 600 BC)
    • A Greek lyric and gnomic poet he is often labeled a moralist, yet his works are generally valued for their description of aristocratic life in archaic Greece
    • Works: numerous elegiac poems
  • Xenophanes [Xenophanes of Colophon] (c. 570 – c. 475 BC)
    • A renowned critic of religion as well as the Greek adoration of athleticism, he was a philosopher, poet, and theologian
    • Works: numerous poems reduced to fragments and quotes