| A | B |
| Aspasia | provided political wisdom, influential female assistance |
| Sophos | Sophists practitioner of Sophos philosophy and rheoric |
| Parmenides | questioned existence, change is not possible |
| Heraklites | things do not exist, change is always happening |
| Zeno of Elis | tourose will always be ahead, exercised paradoxes with logic |
| Anaxagoras | everything is made up of seeds, earth moves in a circular motion, atoms make up everything |
| Erupedocles | codified four elements |
| Protagoras | man is the measure of all things |
| Gorgias | founder of rhetoric |
| Meno | nature vs. custom, men are = yet some are stronger than others |
| Thrasymachus | might is right, must guide the weak |
| Archelaus | convention is socially constructed, not natural |
| Prodikos | pleasure is weak, nature creates religion |
| Antiphon | no distinction between nobles and commoners |
| Critias | rule of strong, law attempts to tame beasts, brainwash weak |