Ancient And Medieval Historians And Philosophers Codexery

A source-cited reference to ancient and medieval historians and philosophers

Ancient And Medieval Historians And Philosophers (15)

• Al-Masudi — Polymath historian and geographer of the Abbasid world.
• Anaximenes of Miletus — Pre-Socratic philosopher who held air as the fundamental substance.
• Anna Komnene — Byzantine princess and historian who wrote the Alexiad.
• Antisthenes — Pupil of Socrates, founder of Cynic philosophy, advocate of ascetic virtue.
• Apollonius of Tyana — Greek philosopher and miracle worker of Neopythagoreanism.
• Arrian — Greek historian, philosopher, and governor of Cappadocia.
• Avempace — Arab polymath whose works influenced Averroes, Albertus Magnus, and Galileo.
• Boethius — Roman philosopher and translator of Greek classics into Latin.
• Carneades — Skeptical philosopher who doubted certainty but affirmed probability.
• Cassius Dio — Roman historian and senator who wrote an 80-volume history of Rome.
• Diodorus Siculus — Greek historian who compiled the vast universal history Bibliotheca Historica.
• Dong Zhongshu — Han dynasty philosopher who promoted Confucianism as state ideology.
• Bernard of Clairvaux — Cistercian abbot, mystic, and co-founder of the Knights Templar.
• John of Salisbury — English author, philosopher, and bishop of Chartres.
• Peter Abelard — French philosopher, logician, theologian, composer, and poet.

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