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  1. Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
    6: ...s lifetime, and especially after his death, his exploits inspired a literary tradition in which he app...
    9: ...eeping in the company of snakes, but by [[Zeus]]. Plutarch (''Alexander'' 2.2-3) relates that both Phi...
    11: ...er was [[Zeus]], rather than Philip. According to Plutarch (''Alexander'' 2.1), his father descended f...
    14: ...omannus]], the recently crowned King of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander t...
    16: ...ad pledged allegiance to Philip were not quick to pledge it to a 20-year-old boy. He immediately order...
  2. Anacharsis (4399 bytes)
    2: ...n; those who have ''no'' skill, judge"'' —[[Diogenes Laertius]], of Anacharsis.
    14: ...e bears three clusters of grapes: the first wine, pleasure; the second, drunkenness, the third, disgus...
    28: ...lassicpersuasion.org/pw/diogenes/dlanacharsis.htm Diogenes Laertius, ''Lives of the Philosophers'' i, 101: b...
  3. Anaxarchus (1184 bytes)
    3: ... Great]] in his Asiatic campaigns. According to [[Diogenes Laertius]] (Lives 9.10.2), in response to Alexand...
    5: [[Plutarch]] tells a story that at [[Bactra]], in [[32...
    7: Diogenes Laertius (Lives 9.10.3) also says that [[Nicocreo...
    9: ...epithet ''eudaimonikos'' ("fortunate"), usually applied to him, that he held the end of life to be ''[...
  4. Pyrrho (3149 bytes)
    1: ...er of the school known as '''[[Pyrrhonism]]'''. [[Diogenes Laertius]], quoting from [[Apollodorus]], says th...
    3: ...better than another. Thirdly, these results are applied to life in general. Pyrrho concludes that, sin...
    5: ...de to things (the third question), ought to be complete suspense of judgment. We can be certain of not...
  5. Pythagoras (10747 bytes)
    13: ...ssential organizing factor of this life: the disciples would sing hymns to [[Apollo]] together regular...
    17: ...oo]]s, including the proper way to stir a fire or place one's shoes before going to sleep.
    21: The idea that Pythagoras forbade his disciples to eat beans has been questioned by some recent...
    25: ... scientist, or a wild [[shaman]]-figure. <!-- examples here might be nice --> The truth no doubt lies ...
    33: ...hat Pythagoras coined the term "cosmos", a term implying a universe with orderly movements and events.
  6. Aristotle (37648 bytes)
    4: ...n [[ancient Greek]] [[philosopher]]. Along with [[Plato]], he is often considered to be one of the two...
    8: ...gh Plato and a few other writers. The writings of Plato and Aristotle form the core of [[Ancient philo...
    10: ...ge has ethical as well as scientific importance. Plato can be called, with qualification, an [[ideali...
    12: Aristotle, by contrast, placed much more value on knowledge gained from the ...
    21: ...The surviving works are known and respected for a plain and unadorned (though not easy) style; not one...
  7. Plato (17363 bytes)
    1: ...ue 1.jpg|thumb|Statue of a philosopher, presumely Plato, in [[Delphi]].]]
    2: '''Plato''' [[May 21]] [[427 BC]] &ndash; c. [[347 BC...
    4: ...to us under his name. All the known dialogues of Plato survive; some of the dialogues which the Greek...
    6: ...ue is Socrates' point of view, and how much of it Plato's.
    8: ...n is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." -- [[Alfred North Whitehead]], Process and R...
  8. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    391: *[[Frederick Copleston]], (1907-1994)
    464: *[[Diogenes Laertius]], (3rd century){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    465: *[[Diogenes Apolloniates]], (c. 460 BC){{fn|R}}
    466: *[[Diogenes of Oenoanda]], (2nd Century){{fn|R}}
    467: *[[Diogenes of Sinope|Diogenes the Cynic of Sinope]], (412-323 BC){{fn|O}}{{fn|R...
  9. List of Byzantine Emperors (11779 bytes)
    3: ...f the Empire even as late as [[Heraclius]] (who replaced the traditional Roman imperial title of "Augu...
    77: *[[Constantine VII]] Porphyrogenitus (the Purple-born) (905-959, ruled [[913]] - [[959]]) &ndash;...
    87: *[[Zoe (empress)|Zo�]] Porphyrogenita (the Purple-born) (978-1050, regent [[1028]] - [[1050]]) &nd...
    98: *[[Romanus IV]] Diogenes (1032-1072, co-emperor [[1067]] - [[1071]]) &ndas...
    119: ...gus|Palaeologan Dynasty]] (restored at Constantinople)==

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