Peripatetics 335-100 BCE (list)

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Where possible, the name of each philosopher has been linked to their Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry.

This list covers only the Peripatetics proper, that is to say, the lines of philosophers teaching and studying in the same institution, such as it was, that Aristotle had begun, or in the institutions established by Peripatetics. While their tradition had its beginning with Aristotle, they frequently disagreed with him or, in their empirical research, went beyond him. They may thus be usefully (albeit artificially) distinguished from later Aristotelians, for whom the exposition and defense of Aristotle's philosophy and authority was central.

Some of the Hellenistic Peripatetics may not have had direct ties to the Peripatos, but rather been participants in a wider Alexandrian culture of scholarship suffused with Peripatetic attitudes to study and learning.

Scholarchs
Aristotle of Stagira, 1st scholarch 335-322 BCE
Theophrastus of Eresus, 2nd scholarch 322-288 BCE
Strato of Lampsacus, 3rd scholarch 288-270 BCE
Lyco of Troas, 4th scholarch 270-225 BCE
Aristo of Ceos, 5th scholarch (?) 225-? BCE
(Perhaps others)
Critolaus of Phaselis, scholarch for an uncertain period before and after 156 BCE
Diodorus of Tyre, scholarch directly following Critolaus
Erymneus, scholarch (directly?) following Diodorus

Students of Aristotle
Eudemus of Rhodes
Meno
Callisthenes of Olynthus
Clytus of Miletus
Leo of Byzantium
Hipparchus of Stagira
Pasicles of Rhodes
Dicaearchus of Messene
Aristoxenus of Tarentum

Clearchus of Soli

Phaenias of Eresus

Contemporaries of Theophrastus
Neleus of Scepsis
Chamaeleon of Heraclea
Demetrius of Phalerum
Pseudo-Demetrius (perhaps)
Praxiphanes

Contemporaries of Strato
Aristarchus of Samus

Contemporaries of Lyco
Hieronymus of Rhodes
Aristo of Ceos

In the time from Aristo to Critolaus
Prytanis
Phormio
Satyrus of Callatis
Hermippus of Smyrna
Sotion of Alexandria
Heracleides Lembus
Antisthenes of Rhodes
Agatharchides of Cnidus
Athenodorus

Contemporaries of Critolaus
Athenodorus of Rhodes
Calliphon and Dinomachus
Diodorus of Tyre
Aristo "the Younger"

Various times
Anonymous works, doxographies, compendia