Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

Philosophers in this Volume

400 B.C. 200 B.C.0 A.D. 200 400 600 800 1000

Plato

ARISTOTLE

Pyrrho

Epicurus

Epictetus

Sextus Empiricus

Plotinus

Augustine

Boethius

Anselm

Other Important Figures

Socrates
Alexander the Great Porphyry
Zeno of Citium Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite
Cleanthes Mohammed
Julius Caesar Charlemagne
Lucretius Avicenna
Philo of Alexandria
Jesus
Paul
Justin Martyr
Marcus Aurelius
Ptolemy (astronomer)
Clement of Alexandria
Tertullian
Origen

A Sampling of Major Events

Death of Socrates

Punic Wars and rise of Roman Empire

Wall of China built

Jerusalem Temple destroyed

Furthest extent of the Roman Empire

Council of Nicea

Roman Empire divided

Fall of Rome

Schools of philosophy in Athens

closed by Justinian

Muslim conquest

of Northern Africa

and Spain

Peak of Mayan

civilization in Central

America

400 B.C. 200 B.C.0 A.D. 200 400 600 800 1000