People
Scientists & Thinkers
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Person · Black Sea
Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes of Sinope, the Cynic philosopher born on Turkey's Black Sea coast: exiled after a coinage scandal, he lived in a jar…
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Person · Aegean
Thales of Miletus
Thales of Miletus, often called the first philosopher: one of the Seven Sages, he lived in Miletus near today's Didim, said that…
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Person · Aegean
Heraclitus of Ephesus
Heraclitus of Ephesus, the weeping philosopher: the man behind 'no one steps in the same river twice', his ideas of fire, logos…
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Person · Aegean
Galen
Galen of Pergamon, the most famous physician of antiquity: born in today's Bergama in 129 AD, trained at the Asclepieion, doctor to…
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Person · Black Sea
Strabo
Strabo of Amaseia, the ancient geographer born in today's Amasya: schooled in Nysa and Rome, he traveled from the Black Sea to…
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Person · Aegean
Herodotus
Herodotus of Halicarnassus, the Father of History: born around 484 BC in today's Bodrum, probably of Carian descent, he traveled from Egypt…
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Person · Istanbul
Piri Reis
Piri Reis, the Ottoman admiral and mapmaker whose 1513 world map, found in Topkapı Palace in 1929, preserves part of a lost…
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Person · Aegean
Isidore of Miletus
Isidore of Miletus, the mathematician who designed Hagia Sophia with Anthemius of Tralles for Justinian: his life, his science and how the…
