Werk:The Theology of Arithmetic/Biography
Many of the people mentioned in the treatise occur only incidentally, but it may be as well for the reader to know at least their dates. Further information may be found in the Oxford Classical Dictionary or (better, but in German) Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encyclopadie.
- Anacreon: lyric poet, sixth century B.C.
- Anatolius: Christian arithmologist, third century A.D.
- Anaxagoras: philosopher, fifth century B.C.
- Androcydes: Pythagorean, possibly late fourth century B.C.
- Aristaeus: Pythagoras' successor as head of the school
- Aristoxenus: musicologist and philosopher, fourth century B.C.
- Cambyses: King of Persia, 530-522 B.C.
- Cleinias: Pythagorean, contemporary with Plato
- Diodes: physician, fourth century B.C.
- Empedocles: philosopher-mystic, fifth century B.C.
- Eratosthenes: scientific and literary polymath, third century B.C.
- Eubulides: Pythagorean, date unknown
- Euripides: playwright, fifth century B.C.
- Harpagus: Persian commander, sixth century B.C.
- Hesiod: epic poet, c. 700 B.C.
- Hippobotus: biographer of philosophers, late third century B.C.
- Hippocrates: physician, fifth century B.C.
- Homer: epic poet, c. 750 B.C.
- Hostanes: teacher of Zoroaster
- Linus: Pythagorean, date unknown
- Megillus: arithmologist, date unknown
- Neanthes: historian, third century B.C.
- Nicomachus: Neopythagorean, late first and early second centuries A.D.
- Orpheus: legendary mystic and poet
- Parmenides: philosopher, fifth century B.C.
- Philolaus: Pythagorean, fifth century B.C.
- Plato: philosopher, late fifth and early fourth centuries B.C.
- Polycrates: tyrant of Samos, late sixth century B.C.
- Prorus: early Pythagorean
- Pythagoras: arithmological philosopher-mystic, sixth century B.C.
- Solon: Athenian statesman, poet and sage, late seventh and early sixth centuries B.C.
- Speusippus: Plato's nephew and successor as head of the Academy
- Strato: third head of Aristotle's school of philosophy, late fourth and early third centuries B.C.
- Xenocrates: Platonist, third head of the Academy, fourth century B.C.
- Xenophanes: philosopher and lyric poet, sixth century B.C.
- Zoroaster: founder of Zoroastrian religion, sixth century B.C.