Discussion
Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes are known as :
Answer: A
They are known as the physikoi.
Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes, the three thinkers of Miletus in the sixth century BCE, asked what the basic stuff (physis) of all things is: water for Thales, the boundless (apeiron) for Anaximander, air for Anaximenes. Aristotle called such thinkers physikoi, students of nature, because they explained the world by natural principles rather than by stories of the gods.
That is exactly why 'myth-makers' is wrong: the Milesians are remembered for breaking with the mythical accounts of Homer and Hesiod. They were not mystics, and although Thales was credited with practical advice to the Ionian cities, they are not classed as politicians.
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