List of ancient Greek writers

This is a list of most influential Greek authors of antiquity (by alphabetic order):

1. Aeschines – Rhetorics
2. Aeschylus – Tragedy
3. Aesop – Fables
4. Alcaeus of Mytilene – Lyric Poetry
5. Alcman – Lyric Poetry
6. Anacreon – Lyric Poetry
7. Anaxagoras – Philosophy
8. Anaximander – Philosophy, Mathematics
9. Anaximenes – Philosophy, Mathematics
10. Andocides – Rhetorics
11. Antiphon – Rhetorics
12. Apollodorus of Carystus – Comedy
13. Aristophanes – Comedy
14. Archimedes – Mathematics, Geometry
15. Aristotle – Philosophy, Physics, Biology
16. Aratus – Poetry, Astronomy
17. Arrian – History
18. Athanasius of Alexandria – Theology
19. Bacchylides – Lyric Poetry
20. Callimachus - Small-scale, personal poetry
21. Chionides – Comedy
22. Chrysippus – Philosophy
23. Claudius Ptolemy – Geography, Astronomy
24. Clement of Alexandria – Theology, Philosophy
25. Democritus – Philosophy, Chemistry
26. Demosthenes – Rhetorics, Politics
27. Dinarchus – Rhetorics
28. Dinon – History
29. Diodorus – History
30. Diogenes Laërtius – History of Philosophy
31. Duris of Samos – History
32. Epicurus – Philosophy
33. Epimenides of Knossos – Philosophy, Philosophical poetry
34. Eubulus (poet) – Comedy
35. Euclid of Megara – Mathematics, Geometry
36. Euripides – Tragedy
37. Evagrius Ponticus – Theology
38. Gorgias – Philosophy
39. Hegemon of Thasos – Comedy
40. Heraclitus – Philosophy
41. Herodotus of Halicarnassus – History
42. Hesiod – Epic Poetry
43. Hippocrates of Cos – Medicine
44. Homer – Epic Poetry
45. Hypereides – Rhetorics
46. Iamblichus – Philosophy
47. Ibycus of Rhegium – Lyric Poetry
48. Irenaeus – Theology, Philosophy
49. Isaeus – Rhetorics, Logography
50. Isocrates – Rhetorics
51. Justin the Martyr – Theology, Philosophy
52. Leucippus – Philosophy, Atomism
53. Lucian – Satire, Rhetoric
54. Luke the Evangelist – Theology, Medicine, History
55. Lycurgus of Athens – Rhetorics
56. Lysias – Logography, Rhetorics
57. Maximus the Confessor – Theology, Philosophy
58. Menander – Comedy
59. Melissus of Samos – Philosophy
60. Nicomachus of Gerasa – Mathematics
61. Origen – Theology, Philosophy
62. Papias of Hierapolis – Theology
63. Parmenides – Philosophy
64. Pherecydes of Athens – Mythography, Logography
65. Philo of Alexandria – Theology, Philosophy
66. Pindar – Lyrical Poetry
67. Plato – Philosophy
68. Plutarch – History, Biography, Philosophy
69. Posidippus (comic poet) – Comedy
70. Protagoras – Philosophy
71. Sappho of Lesbos – Lyric Poetry
72. Simonides – Lyric Poetry
73. Solon – Politics, Philosophy
74. Sophocles – Tragedy
75. Stesichorus – Lyric Poetry
76. Strattis – Comedy
77. Thales of Miletus – Philosophy, Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics
78. Theocritus – Bucolic poetry
79. Theognis of Megara – Lyric Poetry
80. Theopompus – History
81. Thucydides – History
82. Xenarchus of Seleucia – Philosophy, Philology
83. Xenophanes– Philosophy, Theology
84. Xenophon – History
85. Zeno of Citium – Philosophy
86. Zeno of Elea – Philosophy

Further reading

• Nisetich, Frank J., Pindar's Victory Songs. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980: translations and extensive introduction, background and critical apparatus.
• Durant, Will (1926). The Story of Philosophy. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-69500-2.
• Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, Encounter Books, 2001
• The Canadian Museum of Civilization—Greece Secrets of the Past
• Ancient Greece website from the British Museum Economic history of ancient Greece
• The Greek currency history Limenoscope, an ancient Greek ports database
• The Ancient Theatre Archive, Greek and Roman theatre architecture
• Illustrated Greek History—Dr. Janice Siegel, Department of Classics, Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia
• Whitmarsh, Tim (2004). Ancient Greek Literature. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 0-7456-2792-7.
• Beye, Charles Rowan (1987). Ancient Greek Literature and Society. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-1874-7.
• C. A. Trypanis (1981). Greek Poetry from Homer to Seferis. University of Chicago Press.
• Anonymous, 1780. The History and Amours of Rhodope. London: Printed for E.M Diemer.
• John Purkis-The Greek Civilization
• Greek Lyric II: Anacreon, Anacreontea, Choral Lyric from Olympis to Alcman (Loeb Classical Library) translated by David A. Campbell (June 1989) Harvard University Press ISBN 0-674-99158-3 (Original Greek with facing page English translations, an excellent starting point for students with a serious interest in ancient lyric poetry.)

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