Diogenes of Apollonia The work of Diogenes of Apollonia, a 5th-century BCE philosopher from Apollonia, serves as a vital bridge between early Presocratic thought and later philosophical developments
Anaximenes of Miletus (c. 588 – c. 524 BCE) An influential pre-Socratic philosopher from ancient Ionia, Anaximenes is best remembered for positing air as the primordial substance, or 'archê', from which all things arise and to which they return.