https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales_of_Miletus
Thales was probably born in the city of Miletus around the mid-620s BC. The ancient writer Apollodorus of Athens writing during the 2nd century BC, thought Thales was born about the year 625 BC. Herodotus, writing in the fifth century BC, described Thales as "a Phoenician by remote descent". The later historian Diogenes Laertius, in his third …