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Hermann Diels popularized the term pre-socratic in Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker ( The Fragments of the Pre-Socratics ) in 1903.

However, the term pre-Sokratic was in use as early as George Grote's Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates in 1865.

Major analyses of pre-Socratic thought have been made by Gregory Vlastos, Jonathan Barnes, and Friedrich Nietzsche in his Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks.