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Archaic Greece

The Pre-Socratic Philosophers

6th to 5th centuries BCE · Greece

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FragmentsThe Pre-Socratic Philosophers · c. 600-400 BCEOn 2 lists

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Yale Directed Studies
Thomas Aquinas College

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