Anaximandor
Something infinite (simple) - (610 - 546 BC)
Anaximenes
Air (souls bond, air of breath) - (610 - 546 BC)
Thales
Water - ( 624 - 545 BC)
Pythagoras
Numbers (nature = math) - (500 - 490 BC)
Heraclitus
Fire (energy, logos, never step into same river twice) - (535 - 475 BC)
Empedocles
Water, Fire, Air and Earth (peace) - (490 - 434 BC)
Parmenides
One God (real cannot come from not real, being cannot come from non-being) - (515 - 450 BC)
Anaxagoras
At some point the universe existed in a state of disorganization - (500 - 428 BC)
Hylo
God??? ( came from beginning)
Nous
Eternal God??? (came before Hylo, finest and purest)