Philosopher

Ion of Chios

Overview

Ion of Chios (; Ancient Greek: Ἴων ὁ Χῖος; c. 490/480 – c. 420 BC) was a Greek writer, dramatist, lyric poet and philosopher. He was a contemporary of Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. Of his many plays and poems only a few titles and fragments have survived. He also wrote some prose works, including a Pythagorean text, the Triagmos, of which a few fragments survive.

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Philosophers who discussed Ion of Chios

• Pythagoras
• Pherecydes of Syros
• Archelaus (philosopher)

Ideas Ion of Chios discusses

• Epigram
• Aristophanes
• Athens
• Herodotus
• Historian
• Philosophy
• Chios
• Arcesilaus
• Aeschylus
• Plutarch
• Poet
• Sophocles
• Pythagoreanism
• Samos
• Pericles
• Strabo
• Ancient Greece
• Euripides

Place in the tradition

Part of Ionian school (philosophy).

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