Rank | Thinker | IQ | Dates | Classification | Students | Rows | CR | |
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1. | Plato | (IQ:180|#98) | 427-348 BC | Philosophy | Aristotle Coriscus | 27 | 294 | |
2. | Homer | (IQ:175|#277) | 800-700 BC | Epic poetry | 21 | 51 | ||
3. | Empedocles | (IQ:190|#24) | 495-435 BC | Four elements + two forces model | Gorgias | 20 | 276 | |
4. | Anaxagoras | (IQ:180|#132) | 500-428 BC | Natural philosophy | 14 | 50 | ||
5. | Democritus | (IQ:190|#36) | 460-370 BC | Atomic theory | Atheism | 12 | 285 | ||
6. | Pythagoras | (IQ:180|#86) | 570-490 BC | Mathematics | 11 | 115 | ||
7. | Euripides | (IQ:180|#175) | 480-406 BC | Tragedy and drama | 11 | 19 | ||
8. | Socrates | (IQ:180|#168) | 469-399 BC | Anti-reductionist | Plato Aristippus | 9 | 122 | |
9. | Heraclitus | (IQ:185|#81) | 535-450 BC | Flux and fire philosophy | 7 | 121 | ||
10. | Sophocles | 496-406 BC | Tragedy and drama | 6 | ||||
11. | Parmenides | (IQ:180|#127) | 510-450 BC | Denial of the void philosophy | Zeno of Elea Melissus Empedocles | 5 | 118 | |
12. | Zeno of Elea | (IQ:155|#475) | 490-430 BC | Paradox philosophy | 5 | 19 | ||
13. | Coriscus | 385-325 BC | Student of Plato; friend of Aristotle | 5 | ||||
14. | Melissus | c.470-400BC | 4 | 9 | ||||
15. | Hesiod | (IQ:150|#525) | c.750-650BC | 4 | 41 | |||
16. | Isocrates | 4 | ||||||
17. | Gorgias | c.485-380BC | 4 | 4 | ||||
18. | Leucippus | (IQ:180|#124) | c.500-450BC | Democritus | 3 | 212 | ||
19. | Xenophanes | (IQ:175|#230) | c.560-475BC | Parmenides | 3 | 28 | ||
20. | Solon | (IQ:170|#403) | c.638-558BC | 3 | 16 | |||
21. | Protagoras | c.490-420BC | 3 | |||||
22. | Theodectes | 3 | ||||||
23. | Thales | (IQ:180|#92) | c.624-546 | Anaximander Euclid Pythagoras Eudemus | 2 | 92 | ||
24. | Anaximander | (IQ:180|#117) | c.610-564BC | Anaximander | 2 | 45 | ||
25. | Anaximenes | (IQ:165|#440) | 585-528BC | Hippo | 2 | 3 | ||
26. | Diogenes | (IQ:170|#350) | c.408-323BC | Zeno of Citium | 2 | 12 | ||
27. | Exodus | 2 | ||||||
28. | Herodotus | (IQ:175|#249) | 484-425 BCM | 2 | 81 | |||
30. | Xenocrates | 396-314BC | 2 | 5 | ||||
31. | Polybus | 1 | ||||||
32. | Aesop | 1 | ||||||
33. | Theodorus of Byzantium | c.500-450BC | 1 | |||||
Aristotle | 195 | 384-322 BC | Friend / Student of Plato | Alexander | 148 |