Seven Sages of Greece
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The Seven Sages or, alternatively, the Seven Wise Men were the honorary title given to seven philosophers, statesmen, and law-givers of the 7th–6th centuries BCE who were especially renowned for their
Mosaic of the Seven Sages, Baalbeck, Lebanon, 3rd century CE, National Museum of Beirut. Calliope at center and Socrates at the top, with the Seven Sages clockwise from the top: Chilon, Pittacus, Periander, Cleobulus (damaged section), Bias, Thales, and Solon.
Thales of Miletus
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Thales of Miletus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor. Thales was one of the Seven Sages, founding figures of Ancient Greece.
Seven Sages of Greece
…The list of the seven sages given in Plato's Protagoras comprises: Thales of Miletus (c. 624 BCE – c. 546 BCE) is the first well-known Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer. The ancient biographer Diogenes Laertius attributes…
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The Ionic Stoa on the Sacred Way in Miletus.
Thales may have been educated in Egypt.
Thales depicted at the Baths of the Seven Sages.