This an alphabetical list of ancient Greeks. These include ethnic Greeks from Greece and the Mediterranean world up to about 200 AD.

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Abronychus Abronychus ( grc, Αβρώνυχος) was the son of Lysicles, an Athenian, and was stationed at Thermopylae with a vessel to communicate between Leonidas and the fleet at Artemisium. He was subsequently sent as ambassador to Sparta with Themisto ...

– Athenian commander and diplomat *

Acacius of Caesarea Acacius of Caesarea ( el, Ἀκάκιος; date of birth unknown, died in 366) was a Christian bishop probably originating from Syria; Acacius was the pupil and biographer of Eusebius and his successor on the see of Caesarea Palestina. Acacius is ...

– bishop of Caesarea * Acesias – physician *

Acestorides Acestorides ( grc, Ακεστορίδης) is the name of several people from Classical history: *Acestorides of Corinth (fl. 4th century BC) was a native of Corinth who was made supreme commander of Syracuse by the citizens of the Sicily, Sicilian ...

– tyrant of Syracuse *

Achaeus Achaeus is a masculine given name. It may refer to: People * Achaeus of Eretria (born 484 BC), tragic poet * Achaeus of Syracuse (4th century BC), tragic poet * Achaeus (son of Seleucus I Nicator) (3rd century BC), Greek Macedonian nobleman * Ac ...

– general *

Achaeus of Eretria Achaeus of Eretria ( grc, Ἀχαιός ὁ Ἐρετριεύς; born 484 BC in Euboea) was a Greek playwright author of tragedies and satyr plays, variously said to have written 24, 30, or 44 plays, of which 19 titles are known: ''Adrastus'', ''Ae ...

– poet * Achermus – sculptor *

Achilles Tatius Achilles Tatius (Greek: Ἀχιλλεὺς Τάτιος, ''Achilleus Tatios'') of Alexandria was a Roman-era Greek writer of the 2nd century AD whose fame is attached to his only surviving work, the ancient Greek novel, or ''romance'', '' The Adve ...

– writer *

Acron Acron ( grc-gre, Ἄκρων), son of Xenon, was a Medicine in ancient Greece, Greek physician born at Agrigentum (Gk. Acragas). Life The exact dates of Acron is not known; but, as he is mentioned as being contemporary with Empedocles, who died ...

– physician *

Acrotatus I Acrotatus I ( grc, Ακρότατος) was the son of Cleomenes II, king of Sparta. He incurred the displeasure of an influential group of Spartan citizens by opposing the decree which was to release from infamy all who had fled from the battle in ...

– son of King Cleomenes of Sparta *

Acrotatus II Acrotatus ( el, Ἀκρότατος; died 262 BC) was an Agiad King of Sparta from 265 to 262 BC. He was the son of Areus I, and grandson of Acrotatus. He had unlawful intercourse with Chilonis, the young wife of Cleonymus, uncle of his fathe ...

– King of Sparta, grandson of the above *

Acusilaus Acusilaus, Acusilas, or Akousilaos ( grc-gre, Ἀκουσίλαος) of Argos, son of Cabas or Scabras, was a Greek logographer and mythographer who lived in the latter half of the 6th century BC but whose work survives only in fragments and summ ...

– scholar * Adeimantus – Corinthian general *

Adrianus Adrianus of Tyre (Ancient Greek: , c. 113 – 193 AD), also written as Hadrian and Hadrianos, was a sophist of ancient Athens who flourished under the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. Adrianus was the pupil of Herodes Atticus, and obt ...

– sophist *

Aglaophon Aglaophon ( grc, Ἀγλαοφῶν ''Aglaofon'') was an ancient Greek painter, born on the island of Thasos. He was the father and instructor of Polygnotus. He had another son named Aristophon. As Polygnotus flourished before the 90th Olympiad ...

– painter *

Aedesia Aedesia ( grc-gre, Αἰδεσία) was a philosopher of the Neoplatonic school who lived in Alexandria in the fifth century AD. She was a relation of Syrianus and the wife of Hermias, and was equally celebrated for her beauty and her virtues. ...

– female Neoplatonic philosopher *

Aedesius Aedesius ( grc-gre, Αἰδέσιος, died 355 AD) was a Neoplatonist philosopher and mystic born of a noble Cappadocian family. Career Aedesius was born into a wealthy Cappadocian family, but he moved to Syria, where he was apprenticed to Iambl ...

– philosopher *

Aegineta Aegineta was an ancient Greek modeller (or ''fictor,'' one who sculpts with clay or other plastic material) mentioned by Pliny the Elder. Some scholars supposed that the word ''Aeginetae'' in the passage of Pliny denoted merely the country—Aegi ...

– modeller *

Aeimnestus Aeimnestus ( grc, Ἀείμνηστος) is an Ancient Greek word, also spelled and that means "unforgettable", literally "of everlasting memory". It was the name of multiple revered Greek warriors. A Spartan soldier Aeimnestus killed the Persi ...

– Spartan soldier *

Aelianus Tacticus Aelianus Tacticus ( grc-gre, Αἰλιανὸς ὀ Τακτικός; fl. 2nd century AD), also known as Aelian (), was a Greek military writer who lived in Rome. Work Aelian's military treatise in fifty-three chapters on the tactics of the Gree ...

– military writer *

Aelius Aristides Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus ( grc-gre, Πόπλιος Αἴλιος Ἀριστείδης Θεόδωρος; 117–181 AD) was a Greek orator and author considered to be a prime example as a member of the Second Sophistic, a group of celebra ...

– orator and writer *

Aeneas Tacticus Aeneas Tacticus ( grc-gre, Αἰνείας ὁ Τακτικός; fl. 4th century BC) was one of the earliest Greek writers on the art of war and is credited as the first author to provide a complete guide to securing military communications. Poly ...

– writer *

Aenesidemus Aenesidemus ( grc, Αἰνησίδημος or Αἰνεσίδημος) was a Greek Pyrrhonist philosopher, born in Knossos on the island of Crete. He lived in the 1st century BC, taught in Alexandria and flourished shortly after the life of Cic ...

– Sceptic philosopher *

Aeropus I of Macedon Aeropus I of Macedon (Greek: Ἀέροπος Αʹ ὁ Μακεδών) was the son of Philip I, the great-grandson of Perdiccas I, the first king of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia according to Herodotus, and the father of Alcetas. Reign At the ...

– king *

Aeropus II of Macedon Aeropus II of Macedon ( grc, Ἀέροπος, Aéropos), king of Macedonia, son of Perdiccas II, was guardian during the minority of his nephew Orestes, with whom he reigned for some years after 399 BC. The first four years of this time he reigne ...

– king *

Aesara Aesara of Lucania ( el, Αἰσάρα ''Aisara''; 4th or 3rd century BC) was a Pythagorean philosopher who wrote ''On Human Nature'', of which a fragment is preserved by Stobaeus. Life Aesara is known only from a one-page fragment of her philosoph ...

– female Pythagorean philosopher *

Aeschines Socraticus Aeschines of Sphettus ( grc, Αἰσχίνης Σφήττιος, c. 425 BC – c. 350 BC) or Aeschines Socraticus ( grc, Αἰσχίνης Σωκρατικός), son of Lysanias, of the deme Sphettus of Athens, was a philosopher who in his youth ...

– Socratic philosopher *

Aeschines Aeschines (; Greek: , ''Aischínēs''; 389314 BC) was a Greek statesman and one of the ten Attic orators. Biography Although it is known he was born in Athens, the records regarding his parentage and early life are conflicting; but it seems ...

– Athenian orator *

– Physician *

Aeschylus Aeschylus (, ; grc-gre, Αἰσχύλος ; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian, and is often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek ...

– playwright *

Aesop Aesop ( or ; , ; c. 620–564 BCE) was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as ''Aesop's Fables''. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales cre ...

– author of fables *

Aetion Aetion (Ancient Greek: ) was an ancient Greek sculptor of Amphipolis, mentioned by Callimachus and Theocritus, from whom we learn that at the request of Nicias, a famous physician of Miletus, he executed a statue of Asclepius in cedar wood. He fl ...

– painter * Aetius – philosopher *

Agallis Agallis ( grc, Ἀγαλλίς; called Anagallis grc, Ἀναγαλλίς by the '' Suda'') of Corcyra was a female grammarian who wrote about Homer. She, or her father, was a student of Aristophanes of Byzantium. According to Athenaeus, sh ...

– female grammarian *Agarista – see Agariste *

Agariste of Sicyon Agariste (; grc, Ἀγαρίστη) ( fl. 6th century BC, around 560 BC) was the daughter, and possibly the heiress, of the tyrant of Sicyon, Cleisthenes. Her father wanted to marry her to the "best of the Hellenes" and organized a competition whos ...

, daughter of the tyrant of Sicyon,

Cleisthenes Cleisthenes ( ; grc-gre, Κλεισθένης), or Clisthenes (c. 570c. 508 BC), was an ancient Athenian lawgiver credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athens and setting it on a democratic footing in 508 BC. For these accomplishm ...

. *Agariste, daughter of Hippocrates, wife of Xanthippus, and mother of Pericles. * Agasias – sculptor *

Agasicles Agasicles, alternatively spelled Agesicles or Hegesicles ( grc-gre, Ἀγασικλῆς, Ἀγησικλῆς, Ἡγησικλῆς), was a king of Sparta, the 13th of the line of Procles. Son of Archidamus I,Louis Moréri (1732)Le grand dicti ...

– King of Sparta *

Agatharchides Agatharchides or Agatharchus ( grc-gre, Ἀγαθαρχίδης or , ''Agatharchos'') of Cnidus was a Greek historian and geographer (flourished 2nd century BC). Life Agatharchides is believed to have been born at Cnidus, hence his appellation. A ...

– historian and geographer *

Agatharchus Agatharchus or Agatharch ( grc, Ἀγάθαρχος) was a self-taught painter from Samos, who lived in the 5th century BC. His father was named Eudemos (Εὔδημος). He is said by Vitruvius to have invented scenic painting, and to have pain ...

– painter *

Agatharchus of Syracuse Agatharchus or Agatharch of Syracuse ( el, Ἀγάθαρχος) was a Syracusan who was placed by the Syracusans over a fleet of twelve ships in 413 BC, to visit their allies and harass the Athenians. He was afterwards, in the same year, one of ...

– naval commander *

Agathias Agathias or Agathias Scholasticus ( grc-gre, Ἀγαθίας σχολαστικός; Martindale, Jones & Morris (1992), pp. 23–25582/594), of Myrina (Mysia), an Aeolian city in western Asia Minor (Turkey), was a Greek poet and the principal histo ...

– historian *

Agathinus Agathinus ( grc, Ἀγαθῖνος) was an eminent ancient Greek physician, the founder of a new medical sect, to which he gave the name of Eclectic school, Episynthetici. Agathinus was born at Sparta and must have lived in the 1st century AD, as ...

– medicine *

Agathocles Agathocles (Greek: ) is a Greek name, the most famous of which is Agathocles of Syracuse, the tyrant of Syracuse. The name is derived from , ''agathos'', i.e. "good" and , ''kleos'', i.e. "glory". Other personalities named Agathocles: *Agathocles, ...

– tyrant of Syracuse *

Agathocles of Bactria Agathocles I Dicaeus ( grc, Ἀγαθοκλῆς Δικαῖος, Agathoklēs Dikaios, the epithet means "the just") was a Greco-Bactrian/Indo-Greek king, who reigned between around 190 and 180 BC, likely of the dynasty of Diodotus I, due to his co ...

– Indo-Greek king *

Agathon Agathon (; grc, Ἀγάθων; ) was an Athenian tragic poet whose works have been lost. He is best known for his appearance in Plato's ''Symposium,'' which describes the banquet given to celebrate his obtaining a prize for his first tragedy a ...

– tragic poet *

Agathotychus Agathotychus ( grc, Ἀγαθότυχος) was an ancient veterinary surgeon, whose date and history are unknown, but who probably lived in the 4th or 5th century AD. Some fragments of his writings are to be found in the collection of works on thi ...

– veterinary surgeon *

Ageladas Ageladas ( grc-gre, Ἀγελάδας ''Agelā́dās'') or Hagelaedas ( grc-gre, Ἁγελᾴδας ''Hagelā́idās'') was a celebrated Greek (Argive) sculptor, who flourished in the latter part of the 6th and the early part of the 5th century B ...

– sculptor *

Agesander Agesander (also ''Agesandros'', ''Hagesander'', ''Hagesandros'', or ''Hagesanderus''; grc, Ἀγήσανδρος or grc, Ἁγήσανδρος) was one, or more likely, several Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes, working in the first cent ...

– sculptor *

Agesilaus I Agesilaus I (; grc-gre, Ἀγησίλαος), son of Doryssus, was the 6th king of the Agiad line at Sparta, excluding Aristodemus. According to Apollodorus of Athens, he reigned forty-four years, and died in 886 BC. Pausanias makes his reign ...

– King of Sparta *

Agesilaus II Agesilaus II (; grc-gre, Ἀγησίλαος ; c. 442 – 358 BC) was king of Sparta from c. 399 to 358 BC. Generally considered the most important king in the history of Sparta, Agesilaus was the main actor during the period of Spartan hegemony ...

– King of Sparta *

Agesipolis I Agesipolis I ( grc-gre, Ἀγησίπολις; died 380 BC) was the twenty-first of the kings of the Agiad dynasty in ancient Sparta. Agesipolis succeeded his father Pausanias, while still a minor, in 394 BC, and reigned fourteen years. Upon the ...

– King of Sparta *

Agesipolis II Agesipolis II ( grc-gre, Ἀγησίπολις Bʹ; died 369 BC), son of the king Cleombrotus I, succeeded his father and reigned as Agiad King of Sparta. His rule was exceedingly brief, from, at most, 371 until his death in 369 BC. Diodorus Sicu ...

– King of Sparta *

Agesipolis III Agesipolis III ( grc-gre, Ἀγησίπολις; died 183 BC) was the 32nd and last of the kings of the Agiad dynasty in ancient Sparta. Agesipolis was the son of another Agesipolis and grandson of Cleombrotus II and Chilonis, daughter of Leoni ...

– King of Sparta *

Agis I Agis I (Greek: ) was a king of Sparta and eponym of the Agiad dynasty. He was possibly the first historical king of Sparta, reigning at the end of the tenth century BC, during the emergence of the Dorians in Laconia. He is said by most ancient aut ...

– King of Sparta *

Agis II Agis II ( grc-gre, Ἄγις; died c. 399 BC) was the 18th Eurypontid king of Sparta, the eldest son of Archidamus II by his first wife, and half-brother of Agesilaus II. He ruled with his Agiad co-monarch Pausanias.

– King of Sparta *

Agis III Agis III (Greek: ) was the eldest son of Archidamus III, and the 21st Eurypontid king of Sparta. Life Agis was the son of King Archidamus III () and the grandson of Agesilaus II (), who belonged to the Eurypontid dynasty, one of the two royal fam ...

– King of Sparta *

Agis IV Agis IV ( grc-gre, Ἄγις; c. 265 BC – 241 BC), the elder son of Eudamidas II, was the 25th king of the Eurypontid dynasty of Sparta. Posterity has reckoned him an idealistic but impractical monarch. Family background and accession Agi ...

– King of Sparta * Aglaonike – first female astronomer of Ancient Greece *

Agnodike Agnodice or Agnodike ( grc, Ἀγνοδίκη ''Agnodikē'', c. 4th century BCE) is a legendary figure credited as the first female midwife or physician in ancient Athens. Her story is told by the Roman author Gaius Julius Hyginus in his ''Fabu ...

– female Athenian physician and gynecologist *

Agoracritus Agoracritus (Greek ''Agorákritos''; fl. late 5th century BC) was a famous sculptor in ancient Greece. Life Agoracritus was born on the island of Paros, and was active from about Olympiad 85 to 88, that is, from about 436 to 424 BC.Pliny, ''Nat ...

– sculptor *

Agresphon Agresphon ( grc, Ἀγρέσφων), or possibly Agreophon, was an ancient Greece, ancient Greek Philologist, grammarian mentioned in the ''Suda''.''Suda'', ''s.v.'' He wrote a work on persons with homonymous names, sometimes called in English ' ...

– philologist *

Agrippa Agrippa may refer to: People Antiquity * Agrippa (mythology), semi-mythological king of Alba Longa * Agrippa (astronomer), Greek astronomer from the late 1st century * Agrippa the Skeptic, Skeptic philosopher at the end of the 1st century * Agri ...

– astronomer *

Agroetas Agroetas ( grc, Ἀγροίτας) was an ancient Greek historian who wrote a work on Scythia (), from the thirteenth book of which the scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes quotes, and one on Libya (), the fourth book of which is quoted by the same sch ...

– historian *

Agyrrhius Agyrrhius/Agyrrhios ( grc-gre, Ἀγύρριος) of the deme Collytus in Attica Attica ( el, Αττική, Ancient Greek ''Attikḗ'' or , or ), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the city of Athens, the capit ...

– Athenian politician c. 400 BC * Albinus – philosopher * Alcaeus – comic and lyric poet *

Alcaeus of Messene Alcaeus of Messene (; Greek: ) was an ancient Greek poet, who flourished between 219 and 196 BC. Twenty-two of his short poems or epigrams survive in the Greek Anthology, from some of which his date may be fixed at around the late 3rd/early 2nd c ...

– Greek author of a number of epigrams *

Alcaeus of Mytilene Alcaeus of Mytilene (; grc, Ἀλκαῖος ὁ Μυτιληναῖος, ''Alkaios ho Mutilēnaios''; – BC) was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. He was included in the canonical ...

– playwright *

Alcamenes Alcamenes ( grc, Ἀλκαμένης) was an ancient Greek sculptor of Lemnos and Athens, who flourished in the 2nd half of the 5th century BC. He was a younger contemporary of Phidias and noted for the delicacy and finish of his works, among w ...

– sculptor *

Alcetas I of Macedon Alcetas I of Macedon ( grc, Ἀλκέτας; 576–547 BC) was a son of Aeropus I of Macedon and the 8th king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia, counting from Karanus, and the 5th, counting from Perdiccas, reigning, according to Eusebius, ...

– King of Macedon *

Alcibiades Alcibiades ( ; grc-gre, Ἀλκιβιάδης; 450 – 404 BC) was a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general. He was the last of the Alcmaeonidae, which fell from prominence after the Peloponnesian War. He played a major role in t ...

– Athenian general *

Alcidamas Alcidamas ( grc-gre, Ἀλκιδάμας), of Elaea, in Aeolis, was a Greek sophist and rhetorician, who flourished in the 4th century BC. Life He was the pupil and successor of Gorgias and taught at Athens at the same time as Isocrates, to wh ...

– sophist *

Alciphron Alciphron ( grc-gre, Ἀλκίφρων) was an ancient Greek sophist, and the most eminent among the Greek epistolographers. Regarding his life or the age in which he lived we possess no direct information whatsoever. Works We possess under the ...

– sophist * Alcisthene – female painter *

Alcmaeon of Croton Alcmaeon of Croton (; el, Ἀλκμαίων ὁ Κροτωνιάτης, ''Alkmaiōn'', ''gen''.: Ἀλκμαίωνος; fl. 5th century BC) was an early Greek medical writer and philosopher-scientist. He has been described as one of the most e ...

– physician *

Alcman Alcman (; grc-gre, Ἀλκμάν ''Alkmán''; fl. 7th century BC) was an Ancient Greek choral lyric poet from Sparta. He is the earliest representative of the Alexandrian canon of the Nine Lyric Poets. Biography Alcman's dates are u ...

– lyric poet 7th century BC *

Alcmenes Alcmenes ( grc-gre, Ἀλκμένης) or Alcamenes, Alkamenos, was the 9th king of Sparta of the Agiad dynasty, from c. 740 to c. 700 BC. According to Pausanias, he was a commander in the night-expedition against Ampheia, which began the First Me ...

– King of Sparta *

Alexander Aetolus Alexander Aetolus ( grc, Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Αἰτωλός, ''Ἀléxandros ὁ Aἰtōlós'') was a Greek poet and grammarian, the only known representative of Aetolian poetry. Life Alexander was the son of Satyrus (Σάτυρος) and ...

– poet *

Alexander Balas Alexander I Theopator Euergetes, surnamed Balas ( grc, Ἀλέξανδρος Βάλας, Alexandros Balas), was the ruler of the Seleucid Empire from 150/Summer 152 – August 145 BC. Picked from obscurity and supported by the neighboring Roman- ...

– Seleucid king of Syria *

Alexander Cornelius Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor ( grc, Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Πολυΐστωρ; flourished in the first half of the 1st century BC; also called Alexander of Miletus) was a Greek scholar who was enslaved by the Romans during the Mithrida ...

– grammarian *

Alexander I of Epirus Alexander I of Epirus ( grc, Ἀλέξανδρος Α'; c. 371 BC – 331 BC), also known as Alexander Molossus (), was a king of Epirus (343/2–331 BC) of the Aeacid dynasty.Ellis, J. R., ''Philip II and Macedonian Imperialism' ...

- king of Epirus (also known as Alexander Molossus) * Alexander I of Molossia *

Alexander II of Epirus Alexander II (Greek: Άλέξανδρος) was a king of Epirus, and the son of Pyrrhus and Lanassa, the daughter of the Sicilian tyrant Agathocles. Reign He succeeded his father as king in 272 BC, and continued the war which his father had beg ...

– king of Epirus * Alexander II of Molossia *

Alexander of Abonuteichos Alexander of Abonoteichus ( grc, Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Ἀβωνοτειχίτης ''Aléxandros ho Abōnoteichítēs''), also called Alexander the Paphlagonian ( CE), was a Greece, Greek mystic and oracle, and the founder of the Glycon cult t ...

– cult leader *

Alexander of Aphrodisias Alexander of Aphrodisias ( grc-gre, Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Ἀφροδισιεύς, translit=Alexandros ho Aphrodisieus; AD) was a Peripatetic school, Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek Commentaries on Aristo ...

– Peripatetic philosopher *

Alexander of Greece Alexander ( el, Αλέξανδρος, ''Aléxandros''; 1 August 189325 October 1920) was King of Greece from 11 June 1917 until his death three years later, at the age of 27, from the effects of a monkey bite. The second son of King Constanti ...

– rhetorician *

Alexander of Pherae Alexander ( grc, Ἀλέξανδρος) was Tyrant or Despot of Pherae in Thessaly, ruling from 369 to c. 356 BC. Following the assassination of Jason, the tyrant of Pherae and Tagus of Thessaly, in 370 BC, his brother Polydorus ruled for a year, ...

– tyrant *

Alexander Polyhistor Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor ( grc, Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Πολυΐστωρ; flourished in the first half of the 1st century BC; also called Alexander of Miletus) was a Greek scholar who was enslaved by the Romans during the Mithrida ...

– writer *

Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, wikt:Ἀλέξανδρος, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greece, ancient Greek kingdom of Maced ...

– King of Macedon *

Alexandrides Alexandrides ( grc, Ἀλεξανδρίδης) of Delphi was an ancient Greek historian of uncertain date. If we may judge from the subjects on which his history is quoted as an authority, it would seem that his work was a history of Delphi.Scholi ...

– historian *

Alexias Alexias (Greek: ) was an ancient Greek physician who was a pupil of Thrasyas of Mantinea, and lived probably around the middle of the 4th century BC. Theophrastus mentions him as having lived shortly before his time, and speaks highly of his ...

– physician *

Alexion Alexion (died 44 BCE) was an ancient physician. His name and profession are known from a lamentation on his sudden death, authored by his close friend Cicero.Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC ...

– physician *

Alexis Alexis may refer to: People Mononym * Alexis (poet) ( – ), a Greek comic poet * Alexis (sculptor), an ancient Greek artist who lived around the 3rd or 4th century BC * Alexis (singer) (born 1968), German pop singer * Alexis (comics) (1946–1977 ...

– playwright *

– sculptor, pupil of

Polykleitos Polykleitos ( grc, Πολύκλειτος) was an ancient Greek sculptor in bronze of the 5th century BCE. Alongside the Athenian sculptors Pheidias, Myron and Praxiteles, he is considered one of the most important sculptors of classical antiqu ...

Alypius of Alexandria Alypius of Alexandria ( grc-gre, Ἀλύπιος) was a Greek writer on music who flourished in the 4th century CE. Of his works, only a small fragment has been preserved, under the title of ''Introduction to Music'' (). Works The work of Alypius ...

– music writer * Ambryon – writer *

Ameinias of Athens Ameinias or Aminias ( grc, Ἀμεινίας) was a younger brother of the playwright Aeschylus and of a hero of the battle of Marathon named Cynaegirus. He also had a sister, named Philopatho, who was the mother of the Athenian tragic poet Philoc ...

- Athenian commander during the

Greco-Persian Wars The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC. The collision between the fractious political world of the ...

Ameinocles Ameinocles ( grc, Ἀμεινοκλῆς; fl. 21st century CE ) was a Corinthian shipbuilder, who visited Samos about 704 BC, and built four ships for the Samians. Pliny the Elder says that Thucydides mentioned Ameinocles as the inventor of the tr ...

– Corinthian inventor of the trireme *

Ameipsias Ameipsias ( grc, , fl. late 5th century BC) of Athens was an Ancient Greek comic poet, a contemporary of Aristophanes, whom he twice bested in the dramatic contests. His ''Konnos'' () gained a second prize at the City Dionysia in 423, when Aristo ...

– Athenian comic poet *

Amelesagoras Amelesagoras ( grc, Ἀμελησαγόρας) (or Melesagoras, , as he is called by others) of Chalcedon, was an early Greek historian. The histories of Gorgias and Eudemus of Naxos both borrowed from him. Maximus Tyrius speaks of a Melesagoras ...

– writer *

Amelius Amelius (; grc-gre, Ἀμέλιος), whose family name was Gentilianus, was a Neoplatonist philosopher and writer of the second half of the 3rd century. Biography Amelius was a native of Tuscany.Porphyry, ''Vit. Plotin.'' 7 Originally a student ...

– philosopher *

Amentes Amentes ( grc, Ἀμήντης) was an ancient Greek surgeon, mentioned by Galen as the inventor of some ingenious bandages. Some fragments of the works of a surgeon named Amynias (of which name Amentes is very possibly a corruption) still exist ...

– surgeon *

Ammonius Grammaticus Ammonius Grammaticus (; grc-gre, Ἀμμώνιος Γραμματικός) was a 4th-century Egyptian priest who, after the destruction of the pagan temple at Alexandria, Egypt, Alexandria (389), fled to Constantinople, where he became the tutor o ...

– writer *

Ammonius Hermiae Ammonius Hermiae (; grc-gre, Ἀμμώνιος ὁ Ἑρμείου, Ammōnios ho Hermeiou, Ammonius, son of Hermias; – between 517 and 526) was a Greek philosopher from Alexandria in the eastern Roman empire during Late Antiquity. A Neoplatonis ...

– philosopher *

Ammonius Saccas Ammonius Saccas (; grc-gre, Ἀμμώνιος Σακκᾶς; 175 AD242 AD) was a Hellenistic Platonist self-taught philosopher from Alexandria, generally regarded as the precursor of Neoplatonism and/or one of its founders. He is mainly known as ...

– philosopher *

Amphicrates Amphicrates ( grc, Ἀμφικράτης) was an early king of Samos (fl. 700 BC or 600 BC or 550 BC). He is known only from a brief reference in Herodotus and his date is much disputed. Herodotus mentions Amphicrates in passing to explain why the ...

– king of Samos *

Amphis Amphis (Greek: Ἄμφις) was an Athenian comic poet of uncertain origin from approximately the 4th century BC. Pollux seems to refer to Amphis as a Middle Comedy poet, and Amphis' own repeated references to the philosopher PlatoAmphis (frr. 6; ...

– Middle Comedy poet * Amynander – king of Athamania *

Anacharsis Anacharsis (; grc, Ἀνάχαρσις) was a Scythian philosopher; he travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea, to Ancient Athens, in the early 6th century BC, and made a great impression as a forthright and outspoken ...

– philosopher *

Anacreon Anacreon (; grc-gre, Ἀνακρέων ὁ Τήϊος; BC) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and erotic poems. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of Nine Lyric Poets. Anacreon wrote all of his poetry in the ...

– lyric poet 6th century BC *

Anaxagoras Anaxagoras (; grc-gre, Ἀναξαγόρας, ''Anaxagóras'', "lord of the assembly"; 500 – 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Born in Clazomenae at a time when Asia Minor was under the control of the Persian Empire, ...

– philosopher *

Anaxander Anaxander or Anaxandros ( grc-gre, Ἀνάξανδρος) was the 12th Agiad dynasty King of Sparta (ruled c. 640–615 BC). He was the son of King Eurycrates and father of King Eurycratides. His grandson was King Leon of Sparta. Anaxander is ...

– King of Sparta *

Anaxandra Anaxandra ( grc-gre, Ἀναξάνδρα; fl. 220s BC) was an ancient Greek female artist and painter from ancient Greece, Greece. She was the daughter and student of Nealkes, a painter of mythological and genre scenes. She painted circa 228 B.C. ...

– female artist of

Sicyon Sicyon (; el, Σικυών; ''gen''.: Σικυῶνος) or Sikyon was an ancient Greek city state situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea on the territory of the present-day regional unit of Corinthia. An ancient mona ...

Anaxandridas I Anaxandridas I ( grc-gre, Ἀναξανδρίδας) (reigned from c. 675 to c. 645 BC) was king of Sparta and a member of the Eurypontid dynasty. He was succeeded by king Archidamus I. 7th-century BC rulers 7th-century BC Spartans Eurypontid ...

– King of Sparta *

Anaxandridas II Anaxandridas II ( grc-gre, Ἀναξανδρίδας) was an Agiad king of Sparta between c. 560 BC and c. 524 BC, father of Leonidas I and grandfather of Pleistarchus. Under the leadership of the ephor Chilon, in office during the middle of th ...

– King of Sparta *

Anaxandrides Anaxandrides ( grc, Ἀναξανδρίδης) was an Ancient Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy. His father was Anaxander ( grc, Ανάξανδρος). He was victorious ten times (test. 1. 3), first in 376, according to the Marmor Parium (FG ...

– philosopher *

Anaxarchus Anaxarchus (; grc, Ἀνάξαρχος; ) was a Greek philosopher of the school of Democritus. Together with Pyrrho, he accompanied Alexander the Great into Asia. The reports of his philosophical views suggest that he was a forerunner of Pyrrhon ...

– philosopher *

Anaxidamus Anaxidamus ( grc-gre, Ἀναξίδαμος) was a king of Sparta, 11th of the Eurypontids. Anaxidamus was the son of Zeuxidamus and contemporary with Anaxander, and lived to the conclusion of the Messenian Wars, 668 BC (Paus. iii. 7. § 5.) He was ...

– King of Sparta *

Anaxilas of Rhegium Anaxilas or Anaxilaus ( grc-gre, Ἀναξίλας, Ἀναξίλαος), son of Cretines, was a tyrant of Rhegium (modern Reggio Calabria). He was originally from Messenia, a region in the Peloponnese. Life Anaxilas was master of Rhegium in 4 ...

– tyrant *

Anaxilas Anaxilas or Anaxilaus ( grc-gre, Ἀναξίλας, Ἀναξίλαος), son of Cretines, was a tyrant of Rhegium (modern Reggio Calabria). He was originally from Messenia, a region in the Peloponnese. Life Anaxilas was master of Rhegium in 494 ...

– Middle Comedy poet * Anaxilaus – physician *

Anaximander Anaximander (; grc-gre, Ἀναξίμανδρος ''Anaximandros''; ) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus,"Anaximander" in ''Chambers's Encyclopædia''. London: George Newnes, 1961, Vol. 1, p. 403. a city of Ionia (in moder ...

– philosopher *

Anaximenes of Lampsacus Anaximenes of Lampsacus (; grc, Ἀναξιμένης ὁ Λαμψακηνός; 320 BC) was a Greek rhetorician and historian. He was one of the teachers of Alexander the Great and accompanied him on his campaigns. Family His father was named Aris ...

– historian *

Anaximenes of Miletus Anaximenes of Miletus (; grc-gre, Ἀναξιμένης ὁ Μιλήσιος, translit=Anaximenēs ho Milēsios; ) was an Ancient Greek, Ionian Pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), active in the latter half of ...

– philosopher * Anaxippus – New Comedy poet *

Andocides Andocides (; grc-gre, Ἀνδοκίδης, ''Andokides''; c. 440 – c. 390 BC) was a logographer (speech writer) in Ancient Greece. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium an ...

– two; Athenian politician, potter *

Andreas Andreas ( el, Ἀνδρέας) is a name usually given to males in Austria, Greece, Cyprus, Denmark, Armenia, Estonia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Finland, Flanders Flanders (, ; Dutch: ''Vlaanderen'' ) is the Flemish-speaking northern portion of B ...

– physician *

Andriscus Andriscus ( grc, Ἀνδρίσκος, ''Andrískos''; 154/153 BC – 146 BC), also often referenced as Pseudo-Philip, was a Greek pretender who became the last independent king of Macedon in 149 BC as Philip VI ( grc-gre, Φίλιππος, ''Phil ...

– Adramyttian adventurer *

Andromachus of Cyprus Andromachus of Cyprus ( grc, Ἀνδρόμαχος) was an allied admiral of Alexander the Great during the Siege of Tyre in 332 BC. He may have been the same Andromachus who was shortly afterward appointed the governor of Coele-Syria, and was b ...

– admiral of Alexander the Great *

Andron Andron ( grc, Ἄνδρων) is the name of a number of different people in classical antiquity: *Andron of Alexandria, a writer whose work entitled ''The Years'' (Χρονικὰ) is referred to by Athenaeus around the late 2nd century BCE. * of ...

– writer *

Andronicus of Cyrrhus Andronicus of Cyrrhus or Andronicus Cyrrhestes ( grc-gre, Ἀνδρόνικος Κυρρήστου, ''Andrónikos Kyrrhēstou''), son of Hermias, was a Greek astronomer best known as the architect of the horologion at Athens called the Tower of th ...

– astronomer *

Andronicus Rhodius Andronicoos of Rhodes ( grc, Ἀνδρόνικος ὁ Ῥόδιος, translit=Andrónikos ho Rhódios; la, Andronicus Rhodius; ) was a Greek philosopher from Rhodes who was also the scholarch (head) of the Peripatetic school. He is most famous fo ...

– Peripatetic philosopher * Androsthenes – navigator *

Androtion Androtion ( grc, Ἀνδροτίων, gen.: Ἀνδροτίωνος; before 405after 346 BC), was a Greek orator, and one of the leading politicians of his time. He was born between 415 and 405 BC, the son of Andron, who was a member of the Four H ...

– Athenian politician and writer *

Anniceris Anniceris ( grc-gre, Ἀννίκερις; fl. 300 BC) was a Cyrenaic philosopher. He argued that pleasure is achieved through individual acts of gratification which are sought for the pleasure that they produce, but he also laid great emphasis on t ...

– philosopher * Anonymus (author of Antiatticista), an opponent of

Phrynichus Arabius Phrynichus Arabius (; grc-gre, Φρύνιχος Ἀράβιος, lit. 'Phrynichus “the Arab”') or Phrynichus of Bithynia ( grc-gre, Φρύνιχος ὁ Βιθυνός) was a grammarian of the Greek language who flourished in 2nd century Bith ...

Anser Anser may refer to: People * Anser (poet), poet of ancient Rome * Anser Farooq, Canadian lawyer Other uses * ANSER, a security and defense analysis group * ''Anser'' (bird), a genus of geese * Anser (putter), a model of golf club made by Pin ...

– erotic poet * Antagoras of Rhodes – writer *

Antalcidas Antalcidas ( grc-gre, Ἀνταλκίδας; died BC), son of Leon, was an ancient Greek soldier, politician, and diplomat from Sparta. __NOTOC__ Life Antalcidas came from a prominent family and was likely a relation by marriage to the Spa ...

– Spartan general *

Antenor __NOTOC__ Antenor ( grc-gre, Ἀντήνωρ, ''Antḗnōr''; BC) was an Ancient Athens, Athenian Ancient Greek sculpture, sculptor. He is recorded as the creator of the Harmodius and Aristogeiton (sculpture), joint statues of the tyrannic ...

– sculptor *

Anthemius of Tralles Anthemius of Tralles ( grc-gre, Ἀνθέμιος ὁ Τραλλιανός, Medieval Greek: , ''Anthémios o Trallianós''; – 533 558) was a Greek from Tralles who worked as a geometer and architect in Constantinople, the capit ...

– architect *

Anticleides Anticlides of Athens (or Anticleides) ( grc, Ἀντικλείδης) lived after the time of Alexander the Great, and is frequently referred to by later writers. At least four works may be attributed to him; whether these works were all written by ...

– writer *

Antidorus of Cyme Antidorus ( grc, Ἀντίδωρος) of Cyme or Cumae was a Greek grammarian. He was influenced by Eratosthenes, chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria. He played a role in the development of the science of grammar,Stephanos Matthaios, Franc ...

– grammarian * Antigenes – Attic poet *

Antigonus of Carystus Antigonus of Carystus (; grc, Ἀντίγονος ὁ Καρύστιος; la, Antigonus Carystius), Greek writer on various subjects, flourished in the 3rd century BCE. After some time spent at Athens and in travelling, he was summoned to the cour ...

– scholar *

Antigonus II Gonatas Antigonus II Gonatas ( grc-gre, Ἀντίγονος Γονατᾶς, ; – 239 BC) was a Macedonian ruler who solidified the position of the Antigonid dynasty in Macedon after a long period defined by anarchy and chaos and acquired fame for ...

– King of Macedon *

Antigonus III Doson Antigonus III Doson ( el, Ἀντίγονος Γ΄ Δώσων, 263–221 BC) was king of Macedon from 229 BC to 221 BC. He was a member of the Antigonid dynasty. Family background Antigonus III Doson was a half-cousin of his predecessor, Demetri ...

– King of Macedon * Antigonus III of Macedon – King of Macedon *

Antimachus Antimachus of Colophon (city), Colophon ( el, Ἀντίμαχος ὁ Κολοφώνιος), or of Claros, was a Greece, Greek poet and grammarian, who flourished about 400 BC. Life Scarcely anything is known of his life. The Suda claims that ...

– poet and scholar *

Antimachus I Anthimachus I Theos (Greek: ; known as Antimakha in Indian sources) was believed to have been an illegitimate son of Euthydemus, and one of the Greco-Bactrian kings, generally dated from around 185 BC to 170 BC. Rule William Woodthorpe Tarn ...

– Greco-Bactrian king *

Antinous Antinous, also called Antinoös, (; grc-gre, Ἀντίνοος; 27 November – before 30 October 130) was a Greek youth from Bithynia and a favourite and probable lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Following his premature death before his ...

– lover of Hadrian *

Antiochis The name Antiochis ( grc, Ἀντιoχίς) is the female name of Antiochus. Women Seleucid Princesses & Hellenistic Queen Consorts *Antiochis, a daughter of Achaeus and granddaughter of Seleucus I Nicator. She married Attalus and became the moth ...

–

Seleucid The Seleucid Empire (; grc, Βασιλεία τῶν Σελευκιδῶν, ''Basileía tōn Seleukidōn'') was a Greek state in West Asia that existed during the Hellenistic period from 312 BC to 63 BC. The Seleucid Empire was founded by the ...

queen of Cappadochia *

Antiochus of Ascalon Antiochus of Ascalon (; grc-gre, Άντίοχος ὁ Ἀσκαλώνιος; c. 125 – c. 68 BC) was an Platonism, Academic philosopher. He was a pupil of Philo of Larissa at the Platonic Academy, Academy, but he diverged from the Academic s ...

– philosopher *

Antiochus I Soter Antiochus I Soter ( grc-gre, Ἀντίοχος Σωτήρ, ''Antíochos Sōtér''; "Antiochus the Saviour"; c. 324/32 June 261 BC) was a Greek king of the Seleucid Empire. Antiochus succeeded his father Seleucus I Nicator in 281 BC and reigned du ...

– Seleucid king of Syria *

Antiochus II Theos Antiochus II Theos ( grc-gre, Ἀντίοχος Θεός, ; 286 – July 246 BC) was a Greek king of the Hellenistic period, Hellenistic Seleucid Empire who reigned from 261 to 246 BC. He succeeded his father Antiochus I Soter in the winter of ...

– Seleucid king of Syria *

Antiochus III the Great Antiochus III the Great (; grc-gre, Ἀντίoχoς Μέγας ; c. 2413 July 187 BC) was a Greek Hellenistic king and the 6th ruler of the Seleucid Empire, reigning from 222 to 187 BC. He ruled over the region of Syria and large parts of the re ...

– Seleucid king of Syria *

Antiochus IV Epiphanes Antiochus IV Epiphanes (; grc, Ἀντίοχος ὁ Ἐπιφανής, ''Antíochos ho Epiphanḗs'', "God Manifest"; c. 215 BC – November/December 164 BC) was a Greek Hellenistic king who ruled the Seleucid Empire from 175 BC until his deat ...

– Seleucid king of Syria *

Antiochus IX Cyzicenus Antiochus IX Eusebes Cyzicenus ( gr, Ἀντίοχος Εὐσεβής Κυζικηνός, "Antiochus the Pious, the Cyzicene") was a ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom. He was the son of Antiochus VII Sidetes and Cleopatra Thea.

– Seleucid king of Syria *

Antiochus V Eupator Antiochus V Eupator (Greek: ''Αντίοχος Ε' Ευπάτωρ''), whose epithet means "of a good father" (c. 172 BC – 161 BC) was a ruler of the Greek Seleucid Empire who reigned from late 164 to 161 BC (based on dates from 1 Maccabees 6:1 ...

– Seleucid king of Syria *

Antiochus VI Dionysus Antiochus VI Dionysus (c. 148–142/1 BC), king of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom, was the son of Alexander Balas and Cleopatra Thea, daughter of Ptolemy VI of Egypt. Biography Antiochus VI did not actually rule. Either already in 145 or ...

– Seleucid king of Syria *

Antiochus VII Sidetes Antiochus VII Euergetes ( el, Ἀντίοχος Ευεργέτης; c. 164/160 BC129 BC), nicknamed Sidetes ( el, Σιδήτης) (from Side, a city in Asia Minor), also known as Antiochus the Pious, was ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire ...

– Seleucid king of Syria *

Antiochus VIII Grypus Antiochus VIII Epiphanes/Callinicus/Philometor, nicknamed Grypus ( gr, Γρυπός, "hook-nose"), was the ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire from 125 to 96 BC. He was the younger son of Demetrius II and Cleopatra Thea. He may have spent ...

– Seleucid king of Syria *

Antiochus X Eusebes Antiochus X Eusebes Philopator ( grc, Ἀντίοχος Εὐσεβής Φιλοπάτωρ; – 92 or 88 BC) was a Seleucid monarch who reigned as King of Syria during the Hellenistic period between 95 BC and 92 BC or 89/88 BC (224 ...

– Seleucid king of Syria *

Antiochus XI Ephiphanes Antiochus XI Epiphanes Philadelphus ( gr, Ἀντίοχος Ἐπιφανής Φιλάδελφος; died 93 BC) was a Seleucid monarch who reigned as King of Syria between 94 and 93 BC, during the Hellenistic period. He was the son of AntiochusV ...

– Seleucid king of Syria *

Antiochus XII Dionysus Antiochus XII Dionysus Epiphanes Philopator Callinicus ( grc, Ἀντίοχος Διόνυσος Ἐπιφανής Φιλοπάτωρ Καλλίνικος; between 124 and 109 BC – 82 BC) was a Hellenistic Seleucid monarch who reigned as King ...

– Seleucid king of Syria *

Antiochus XIII Asiaticus Antiochus XIII Philadelphus, (Greek: Ἀντίοχος ΙΓ' Φιλάδελφος) known as Asiaticus, (Ἀσιατικός) was the penultimate ruler of the Seleucid kingdom. Biography He was son of king Antiochus X Eusebes and the Ptolemaic ...

– Seleucid king of Syria *

Antipater II of Macedon Antipater I of Macedon (Greek: Ἀντίπατρος), was the son of Cassander and Thessalonike of Macedon, who was a half-sister of Alexander the Great. He was king of Macedon from 297 BC until 294 BC, jointly with his brother Alexander V. Event ...

– King of Macedon *

Antipater III of Macedon Antipater (; grc, , translit=Antipatros, lit=like the father; c. 400 BC319 BC) was a Macedonian general and statesman under the subsequent kingships of Philip II of Macedon and his son, Alexander the Great. In the wake of the collaps ...

– King of Macedon *

Antipater of Sidon Antipater of Sidon (Greek: Ἀντίπατρος ὁ Σιδώνιος, ''Antipatros ho Sidonios'') was an ancient Greek poet of the second half of the 2nd century BC. Cicero mentions him living at Rome in the time of Crassus and Quintus Lutatius ...

– writer *

Antipater of Tarsus Antipater of Tarsus ( el, Ἀντίπατρος ὁ Ταρσεύς; died 130/129 BC) was a Stoic philosopher. He was the pupil and successor of Diogenes of Babylon as leader of the Stoic school, and was the teacher of Panaetius. He wrote works on ...

– philosopher *

Antipater of Thessalonica Antipater of Thessalonica ( grc-gre, Ἀντίπατρος ὁ Θεσσαλονικεύς; c. 10 BC - c. AD 38) was a Greek epigrammatist of the Roman period. Biography Antipater lived during the latter part of the reign of Augustus, and perha ...

– epigrammatist *

Antipater of Tyre Antipater of Tyre ( grc-gre, Ἀντίπατρος ὁ Τύριος; fl. 1st century BC) was a Greek Stoic philosopher and a friend of Cato the Younger and Cicero. Life Antipater lived after, or was at least younger than, Panaetius. Cicero, in spe ...

– philosopher *

Antipater Antipater (; grc, , translit=Antipatros, lit=like the father; c. 400 BC319 BC) was a Macedonian general and statesman under the subsequent kingships of Philip II of Macedon and his son, Alexander the Great. In the wake of the collaps ...

– Macedonian general * Antiphanes – playwright *

Antiphemus Antiphemus ( grc, Ἀντίφημος) was a man from ancient Greece from Rhodes who was the founder of Gela, around 690 BCE. The colony was composed of Rhodians and Cretans, the latter led by Entimus the Cretan, the former chiefly from Lindus, and ...

– one of the founders of the city of

Gela Gela (Sicilian and ; grc, Γέλα) is a city and (municipality) in the Autonomous Region of Sicily, Italy; in terms of area and population, it is the largest municipality on the southern coast of Sicily. Gela is part of the Province of Cal ...

* Antiphilus – writer *

Antiphon An antiphon (Greek ἀντίφωνον, ἀντί "opposite" and φωνή "voice") is a short chant in Christian ritual, sung as a refrain. The texts of antiphons are the Psalms. Their form was favored by St Ambrose and they feature prominently ...

– three; two Athenian orators, tragic poet *

Antisthenes Antisthenes (; el, Ἀντισθένης; 446 366 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and a pupil of Socrates. Antisthenes first learned rhetoric under Gorgias before becoming an ardent disciple of Socrates. He adopted and developed the ethical side o ...

– two; philosopher, writer *

Antonius Diogenes Antonius Diogenes ( grc, Ἀντώνιος Διογένης) was the author of an ancient Greek romance entitled ''The Wonders Beyond Thule'' (Τὰ ὑπὲρ Θoύλην ἄπιστα ''Apista huper Thoulen''). Scholars have placed him in the 2nd ...

– writer *

Antoninus Liberalis Antoninus Liberalis ( el, Ἀντωνῖνος Λιβεράλις) was an Ancient Greek grammarian who probably flourished between AD 100 and 300. His only surviving work is the ''Metamorphoses'' (Μεταμορφώσεων Συναγωγή, ''Me ...

– grammarian *

Antyllus Antyllus ( grc, Ἄντυλλος) was a Greek surgeon, who lived in the 2nd century AD in Rome. He is most notable for his method of treatment of aneurysms. He described the types of aneurysms, and created a taxonomy related to the lesions' poten ...

– physician *

Anyte of Tegea Anyte of Tegea was a Hellenistic poet from Tegea in Arcadia. Little is known of her life, but twenty-four epigrams attributed to her are preserved in the ''Greek Anthology'', and one is quoted by Julius Pollux; nineteen of these are generally acc ...

– poet *

Anytos Anytos or Anytus ( grc, Ἄνυτος) was one of the Titans of Greek mythology.Smiths.v. Anytus Pausania8.37.5 He was supposed to have raised Despoina, and in Arcadia during Pausanias' time the two were represented by statues in a temple near A ...

– Athenian general *

Apega of Sparta Apega of Sparta ( grc, Ἀπῆγα) (fl. 3rd–2nd century BC) was a Queen of Sparta. Born in Argos, she married Nabis, who later became the tyrant of Sparta. Ancient sources describe her as being as tyrannical as her husband, and even acting as hi ...

– wife of

Nabis Nabis ( grc-gre, Νάβις) was the last king of independent Sparta. He was probably a member of the Heracleidae, and he ruled from 207 BC to 192 BC, during the years of the First and Second Macedonian Wars and the eponymous "War against Nabis" ...

Apelles Apelles of Kos (; grc-gre, Ἀπελλῆς; fl. 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. Pliny the Elder, to whom much of modern scholars' knowledge of this artist is owed (''Naturalis Historia'' 35.36.79–97 and ''passim'' ...

– painter * Apellicon – book collector *

Apion Apion Pleistoneices ( el, Ἀπίων Πλειστονίκου ''Apíōn Pleistoníkēs''; 30–20 BC – c. AD 45–48), also called Apion Mochthos, was a Hellenized Egyptian grammarian, sophist, and commentator on Homer. He was born at the Siw ...

– scholar *

Apollocrates Apollocrates ( el, Ἀπολλοκράτης) was the son of Dionysius II of Syracuse. Two years after Dion and Heracleides conquered Syracuse in 357 BC, Apollocrates maintained control of the fortress of Ortygia. As supplies ran out, Apollocrat ...

– tyrant of Syracuse *

Apollodorus of Alexandria Apollodorus ( grc, Ἀπολλόδωρος) is the name of two physicians mentioned by Pliny the Elder, one of whom was a native of Citium (modern Kition), in Cyprus, the other of Tarentum (modern Taranto). Perhaps it was one of these who wrote to P ...

– physician *

Apollodorus of Athens Apollodorus of Athens ( el, Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος, ''Apollodoros ho Athenaios''; c. 180 BC – after 120 BC) son of Asclepiades, was a Greek scholar, historian, and grammarian. He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon, Pan ...

– scholar *

Apollodorus of Carystus Apollodorus of Carystus ( el, Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ Καρύστιος) in Euboea, was one of the most important writers of the Attic New Comedy, who flourished in Athens between 300 and 260 B.C. He is to be distinguished from the older Apoll ...

– New Comedy poet *

Apollodorus of Damascus Apollodorus of Damascus ( grc, Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ Δαμασκηνός) was a Nabataean architect and engineer from Damascus, Roman Syria, who flourished during the 2nd century AD. As an engineer he authored several technical treatises, ...

– architect *

Apollodorus of Gela Apollodorus of Gela ( el, Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ Γελῷος) in Sicily was a New Comedy playwright. According to Eudokia Makrembolitissa and the Suda, he was a contemporary of Menander, and accordingly lived between the years 340 and 290 BC. ...

– New Comedy poet *

Apollodorus of Phaleron Apollodorus of Phaleron (Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος Φαληρεύς, ''Apollódōros Phalēreύs'', c. 445 – 4th century BCE) was an Ancient Athenian student and prominent follower of Socrates frequently depicted in the Socratic literature. ...

– student of Socrates *

Apollodorus of Pergamon Apollodorus ( grc, Ἀπολλόδωρος) of Pergamon was a rhetorician of ancient Greece who was the author of a school of rhetoric called after him ''Apollodoreios Hairesis'' (Ἀπολλοδωρειος αἵρεσις), which was subsequently ...

– rhetor * Apollodorus of Seleuceia on the Tigris – Stoic philosopher *

Apollodorus Apollodorus (Ancient Greek, Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος ''Apollodoros'') was a popular name in ancient Greece. It is the masculine gender of a noun compounded from Apollo, the deity, and doron, "gift"; that is, "Gift of Apollo." It may refer to: ...

– several; painter, grammarian, comic playwright, architect *

Apollodotus I Apollodotus I (Greek: ) Prakrit in the Kharoshti script: ''maharajasa apaladatasa tratarasa'') was an Indo-Greek king between 180 BC and 160 BC or between 174 and 165 BC (first dating Osmund Bopearachchi and R. C. Senior, second dating ...

– Indo-Greek king * Apollonius – finance minister of Egypt *

Apollonius Molon Apollonius Molon or Molo of Rhodes (or simply Molon; grc, Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Μόλων), was a Greek rhetorician. He was a native of Alabanda, a pupil of Menecles, and settled at Rhodes, where he opened a school of rhetoric. Prior to that, ...

– rhetor * Apollonius Mys – physician *

Apollonius of Citium Apollonios of Kition (or Apollonius of Citium; el, Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Κιτιεύς), was a physician (fl. c. 60 BC) belonging to the Empiric school of thought. He studied medicine in Alexandria under the surgeon Zopyrus (physician), Zopyru ...

– physician *

Apollonius of Perga Apollonius of Perga ( grc-gre, Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Περγαῖος, Apollṓnios ho Pergaîos; la, Apollonius Pergaeus; ) was an Ancient Greek geometer and astronomer known for his work on conic sections. Beginning from the contribution ...

– mathematician *

Apollonius of Rhodes Apollonius of Rhodes ( grc, Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος ''Apollṓnios Rhódios''; la, Apollonius Rhodius; fl. first half of 3rd century BC) was an ancient Greek author, best known for the ''Argonautica'', an epic poem about Jason and t ...

– writer and librarian *

Apollonius of Tyana Apollonius of Tyana ( grc, Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Τυανεύς; c. 3 BC – c. 97 AD) was a Greek Neopythagorean philosopher from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Anatolia. He is the subject of ''L ...

– Neopythagorean sage * Apollonius Sophista – scholar * Apollonius – several; philosopher and mathematician *

Apollophanes Apollophanes Soter (Greek: ; epithet means "the Saviour"; reigned c. 35 – 25 BCE) was an Indo-Greek king in the area of eastern and central Punjab in modern India and Pakistan. Rule Little is known about him, except for some of his remaining ...

– comedian *

Apollos Apollos ( grc-gre, Ἀπολλώς) was a 1st-century Alexandrian Jewish Christian mentioned several times in the New Testament. A contemporary and colleague of Paul the Apostle, he played an important role in the early development of the c ...

– early Christian *

Appian Appian of Alexandria (; grc-gre, Ἀππιανὸς Ἀλεξανδρεύς ''Appianòs Alexandreús''; la, Appianus Alexandrinus; ) was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who flourished during the reigns of Emperors of Rome Trajan, Hadr ...

– historian *

Apsines Apsines of Gadara ( grc-gre, Ἀψίνης ὁ Γαδαρεύς; fl. 3rd century AD) was a Greek rhetorician. He was a native of the Hellenised city of Gadara,Blank, David"Philodemus" The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2019 Edition), ...

– Roman-era Athenian rhetorician *

Arachidamia Archidamia ( el, Ἀρχιδαμία) (c. 340-241 BC) was a Spartan queen, wife of Eudamidas I, mother of Archidamus IV and Agesistrata, grandmother of Eudamidas II, and great-grandmother of Agis IV. War Siege of Sparta Archidamia served as Quee ...

– wealthy Spartan queen * Araros – son of Aristophanes *

Aratus Aratus (; grc-gre, Ἄρατος ὁ Σολεύς; c. 315 BC/310 BC240) was a Greek didactic poet. His major extant work is his hexameter poem ''Phenomena'' ( grc-gre, Φαινόμενα, ''Phainómena'', "Appearances"; la, Phaenomena), the fi ...

– two; scholar, statesman * Arcesilas – four Cyrene kings *

Arcesilaus Arcesilaus (; grc-gre, Ἀρκεσίλαος; 316/5–241/0 BC) was a Greek Hellenistic philosopher. He was the founder of Academic Skepticism and what is variously called the Second or Middle or New Academy – the phase of the Platonic Acade ...

– two; philosopher, sculptor *Archidameia – name of several women *Archidamis (Ἀρχίδαμις) – daughter of the Spartan King Cleadas *

Archedemus of Tarsus Archedemus of Tarsus (city), Tarsus ( el, Άρχέδημος ὁ Ταρσεύς) was a Stoicism, Stoic philosopher who flourished around 140 BC. Two of his works: ''On the Voice'' ( el, Περὶ Φωνῆς) and ''On Elements'' ( el, Περὶ Σ� ...

– Stoic philosopher * Archedicus – New Comedy poet *

Archelaus I Archelaus I (; grc-gre, Ἀρχέλαος ) was king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon from 413 to 399 BC. He was a capable and beneficent ruler, known for the sweeping changes he made in state administration, the military, and commerce. ...

– King of Macedon * Archelaus II – King of Macedon *Archelaus – five;

philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

, Pontic army officer,

phrourarch Phrourarch or Phrourarchos is a Greek military title, meaning garrison commander. Athenians controlled their overseas empire with the episcopi and phrourarchs. The term was widely used by the Macedonian and later Hellenistic armies. Regarding the ...

, son of Androcles, Judaean ruler *

Archermus Archermus ( grc, Άρχερμος) was a sculptor of Chios working in the middle of the 6th century BC. His father, Micciades, and his sons, Bupalus and Athenis, were sculptors of marble. A scholium on Aristophanes' ''Birds'', credits Archermus wi ...

– sculptor *

Archestratus Archestratus ( grc-gre, Ἀρχέστρατος ''Archestratos'') was an ancient Greek poet of Gela or Syracuse, in Sicily, who wrote some time in the mid 4th century BCE, and was known as "the Daedalus of tasty dishes". His humorous didactic po ...

– two; Athenian general, writer *

Archinus Archinus ( grc, Ἀρχῖνος) was an Athenian democratic politician who wielded substantial influence between the restoration of democracy in 403 BC and the beginning of the Corinthian War in 395 BC. In the early days of the restored democrac ...

– Athenian politician *

Architimus Architimus ( grc, Ἀρχίτιμος) was a writer of ancient Greece. His date is uncertain, but was some time before the 1st century CE. We know him to have written a work about Arcadia.Plutarch Plutarch (; grc-gre, Πλούταρχος, ' ...

– writer * Archias – poet *

Archidamus I Archidamus I, also spelled Archidamos I ( grc, Ἀρχίδαμος Α΄), was a king of Sparta, 12th of the Eurypontids. He reigned from c. 660 to c. 645.Cartledge, ''Agesilaos'', p. 23. His relationship to other Spartan kings is unclear. Accordin ...

– King of Sparta *

Archidamus II Archidamus II ( grc-gre, Ἀρχίδαμος ; died 427/6 BC) was a king of Sparta who reigned from approximately 469/8 BC to 427/6 BC. His father was Zeuxidamus (called Cyniscos by many Spartans). Zeuxidamus married and had a son, Archid ...

– King of Sparta *

Archidamus III Archidamus III ( grc-gre, Ἀρχίδαμος ) was the son of Agesilaus II and king of Sparta from 360 to 338 BC. Biography While still a prince, he was the eispnelas (εἰσπνήλας, inspirer, or pederastic lover) of Cleonymus, son of ...

– King of Sparta *

Archidamus IV Archidamus IV ( el, Ἀρχίδαμος Δ΄) was Eurypontid king of Sparta from c. 300 BC to c. 275 BC. An obscure king, Archidamus is only known for his defeat against the Macedonian king Demetrius Poliorketes at Mantinea in 294, where he mig ...

– King of Sparta *

Archidamus V Archidamus V ( grc, Ἀρχίδαμος Ε΄) was the 27th of the Kings of Sparta of the Eurypontid line, reigning during 228 and 227 BC. He was the son of Eudamidas II and Agesistrata and through him the grandson of Archidamus IV, after whom he w ...

– King of Sparta *

Archigenes Archigenes ( gr, Αρχιγένης), an ancient Greco-Syrian physician, who lived in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. Archigenes was the most celebrated of the sect of the Eclectici, and was a native of Apamea in Syria; he practiced at Rome in the ...

– physician *

Archilochus Archilochus (; grc-gre, Ἀρχίλοχος ''Arkhilokhos''; c. 680 – c. 645 BC) was a Greek lyric poet of the Archaic period from the island of Paros. He is celebrated for his versatile and innovative use of poetic meters, and is the ea ...

– poet *

Archimedes Archimedes of Syracuse (;; ) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists ...

– mathematician * Archinos – Archon * Archippas – Athenian comic poet *

Archytas Archytas (; el, Ἀρχύτας; 435/410–360/350 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, music theorist, astronomer, statesman, and strategist. He was a scientist of the Pythagorean school and famous for being the reputed founder ...

– philosopher *

Arctinus Arctinus of Miletus or Arctinus Milesius ( grc, Ἀρκτῖνος Μιλήσιος) was a Greek epic poet whose reputation is purely legendary, as none of his works survive. Traditionally dated between 775 BC and 741 BC, he was said to have been ...

– epic poet *

Aretaeus Aretaeus ( grc-gre, Ἀρεταῖος) is one of the most celebrated of the ancient Greek physicians. Little is known of his life. He presumably was a native or at least a citizen of Cappadocia, a Roman province in Asia Minor (modern day Turkey ...

– medical writer * Aretaphila of Cyrene – noblewoman who deposed the tyrant Nicocrates and his co-conspirators *

Arete of Cyrene Arete of Cyrene (; el, Ἀρήτη; fl. 5th–4th century BC) was a Cyrenaic philosopher who lived in Cyrene, Libya. She was the daughter of Aristippus of Cyrene. Life and teachings Arete learned philosophy from her father, Aristippus, who had h ...

– Cyrenaic philosopher, daughter of

Aristippus Aristippus of Cyrene, Libya, Cyrene (; grc, Ἀρίστιππος ὁ Κυρηναῖος; c. 435 – c. 356 BCE) was a Hedonism, hedonistic Ancient Greece, Greek philosopher and the founder of the Cyrenaics, Cyrenaic school of philosophy. He w ...

Areus I Areus I ( grc-gre, Ἀρεύς; c. 320 or 312 – 265 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from 309 to 265 BC. His reign is noted for his attempts to transform Sparta into an Hellenistic period, Hellenistic kingdom and to recover its former pre-eminence i ...

– King of Sparta *

Areus II Areus II ( grc, Ἀρεύς Β΄) was Agiad King of Sparta from 262 to 254 BC. He never reigned as he was still a child when he died. He was succeeded by his cousin Leonidas II, who had served as regent. Life Areus was the son of Acrotatus ...

– King of Sparta *Argas – notably bad poet * Argentarius – two; epigrammatist, rhetorician *

Arignote Arignote or Arignota (; grc-gre, Ἀριγνώτη, ''Arignṓtē''; fl. c. ) was a Pythagorean philosopher from Croton or Samos. She was known as a student of Pythagoras and TheanoSuda, ''Arignote'' and, according to some traditions, their dau ...

– philosopher; student and perhaps daughter of Pythagoras *

Arimneste Arimneste ( grc, Ἀριμνήστη) was the daughter of Nicomachus and Phaestis, and Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Clas ...

– Aristotle's older sister *

Arion Arion (; grc-gre, Ἀρίων; fl. c. 700 BC) was a kitharode in ancient Greece, a Dionysiac poet credited with inventing the dithyramb. The islanders of Lesbos claimed him as their native son, but Arion found a patron in Periander, tyrant ...

– poet *

Aristaeus A minor god in Greek mythology, attested mainly by Athenian writers, Aristaeus (; ''Aristaios'' (Aristaîos); lit. “Most Excellent, Most Useful”), was the culture hero credited with the discovery of many useful arts, including bee-keeping; ...

– mathematician *

Aristagoras Aristagoras ( grc-gre, Ἀρισταγόρας ὁ Μιλήσιος), d. 497/496 BC, was the leader of the Ionian city of Miletus in the late 6th century BC and early 5th century BC and a key player during the early years of the Ionian Revolt a ...

– tyrant of Miletus *

Aristander of Telmessus Aristander of Telmessos ( el, Αρίστανδρος ο Τελμησσεύς; born , ), a Greek from Caria, was Alexander the Great's favorite seer. Life Aristander belonged to the entourage of Alexander's father, Philip II of Macedon, in 357/6, ...

– soothsayer to Alexander the Great *

Aristarchus of Samos Aristarchus of Samos (; grc-gre, Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Σάμιος, ''Aristarkhos ho Samios''; ) was an ancient Greek astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or ...

– astronomer and mathematician *

Aristarchus of Samothrace Aristarchus of Samothrace ( grc-gre, Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Σαμόθραξ ''Aristarchos o Samothrax''; c. 220 – c. 143 BC) was an ancient Greek grammarian, noted as the most influential of all scholars of Homeric poetry. He was the h ...

– critic and grammarian *

Aristarchus of Tegea Aristarchus or Aristarch of Tegea ( grc-gre, Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Τεγεάτης, ''Aristarkhos ho Tegeates'') was a Greek tragic poet and a contemporary of Sophocles and Euripides. He lived to be a centenarian, composed seventy plays, and w ...

– tragedian *

Aristeas Aristeas ( el, Ἀριστέας) was a semi-legendary Greek poet and miracle-worker, a native of Proconnesus in Asia Minor, active ca. 7th century BC. The Suda claims that, whenever he wished, his soul could leave his body and return again. ...

– poet *

Aristeus Aristeus ( grc, Ἀριστέας), son of Adeimantus (Ἀδείμαντος; ''Adeímantos''), was a Corinthian general who commanded the expedition to Potidaea in 432 BC. After the Athenians broke a truce with the Corinthians at Sybota, his p ...

– Corinthian general *

Aristias Aristias ( grc, Ἀριστίας), son of Pratinas, was a dramatic poet of ancient Greece whose tomb Pausanias saw at Phlius, and whose satyric dramas, with those of his father, were considered to be surpassed only by those of Aeschylus. Arist ...

– playwright *

Aristides of Miletus Aristides ( ; grc-gre, Ἀριστείδης, Aristeídēs, ; 530–468 BC) was an ancient Athenian statesman. Nicknamed "the Just" (δίκαιος, ''dikaios''), he flourished in the early quarter of Athens' Classical period and is remember ...

– writer *

Aristides Quintilianus Aristides Quintilianus (Greek: Ἀριστείδης Κοϊντιλιανός) was the Greek author of an ancient musical treatise, ''Perì musikês'' (Περὶ Μουσικῆς, i.e. ''On Music''; Latin: ''De Musica'') According to Theodore Kar ...

– writer *

Aristides Aristides ( ; grc-gre, Ἀριστείδης, Aristeídēs, ; 530–468 BC) was an ancient Athenian statesman. Nicknamed "the Just" (δίκαιος, ''dikaios''), he flourished in the early quarter of Athens' Classical period and is remember ...

– three; Athenian statesman, two painters *

– philosopher *

Aristobulus of Cassandreia Aristobulus of Cassandreia (c. 375 BC – 301 BC), Greek historian, son of Aristobulus, probably a Phocian settled in Cassandreia, accompanied Alexander the Great on his campaigns. He served throughout as an architect and military engineer as wel ...

and

Aristobulus of Paneas Aristobulus of Alexandria ( el, Ἀριστόβουλος) also called Aristobulus the Peripatetic () and once believed to be Aristobulus of Paneas, was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher of the Peripatetic school, though he also used Platonic an ...

– two; historian, commentator * Aristocles – three; Spartan general, two scholars *

Aristodemus In Greek mythology, Aristodemus (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστόδημος) was one of the Heracleidae, son of Aristomachus and brother of Cresphontes and Temenus. He was a great-great-grandson of Heracles and helped lead the fifth and final attack ...

– three; Spartan hero, Roman hero, historian *

Aristodemus of Cydathenaeum Aristodemus of Cydathenaeum (Greek: Ἀριστόδημος Κυδαθηναιεύς ''Aristódēmos Kudathēnaieύs''; fl. c. 5th century BCE) was an ancient Athenian follower of the philosopher Socrates. He is best remembered as a character an ...

– student of Socrates * Aristogiton – Athenian tyrannicide *

Aristolycus of Athens Aristolycus of Athens (in Ancient Greek, Αριστόλυκος) or Aristolochos (in Ancient Greek, Αριστόλοχος) of Athens, is listed as a victor in the stadion race of the 109th Olympiad An olympiad ( el, Ὀλυμπιάς, ''Olympi ...

– athlete *

Aristomenes Aristomenes ( grc-gre, Ἀριστομένης) was a king of Messenia, celebrated for his struggle with the Spartans in the Second Messenian War (685–668 BC), and his resistance to them on Mount Eira for 11 years. At length the mountain fell t ...

– two; Messenian hero, Athenian comedian * Ariston of Alexandria – philosopher *

Ariston of Ceos Aristo of Ceos (; grc-gre, Ἀρίστων ὁ Κεῖος; ) was a Peripatetic school, Peripatetic Philosophy, philosopher and a native of the island of Kea (island), Ceos. His birthplace was the town of Ioulis. He is not to be confused with Aris ...

– philosopher * Ariston of Chios – philosopher * Ariston (king of Sparta) – King of Sparta *

Aristonicus of Pergamum Aristonicus may refer to: * Aristonicus of Pergamon, who as king became Eumenes III (died 129 BC), and promised freedom to the slaves * Aristonicus of Alexandria Aristonicus of Alexandria (Greek , ''Aristonikos ho Alexandreus'') was a distinguish ...

– Attalid king of Pergamum * Aristonicus – grammarian * Aristonous – citharode *

Aristonymus Aristonymus of Athens ( el, Ἀριστώνυμος) was sent by Plato to reform the constitution of the Arcadians. Aristonymus was the father of Clitophon. Sources *Plato, '' Republic,'' 328b *Plutarch Plutarch (; grc-gre, Πλούταρ ...

– comedian *

Aristophanes of Byzantium __NOTOC__ Aristophanes of Byzantium ( grc-gre, Ἀριστοφάνης ὁ Βυζάντιος ; BC) was a Hellenistic Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly renowned for his work in Homeric scholarship, but also for work on other ...

– scholar *

Aristophanes Aristophanes (; grc, Ἀριστοφάνης, ; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme In Ancient Greece, a deme or ( grc, δῆμος, plural: demoi, δημοι) was a suburb or a subdivision of Athens and other city-states ...

– playwright *

Aristophon Aristophon was a Greek painter, mentioned by Pliny the Elder. Life Aristophon was the son and pupil of the elder Aglaophon, and brother of Polygnotus. He was a native of Thasos. Pliny, who places him among the painters of the second rank, mentions ...

– Athenian politician *

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

– two; philosopher, Athenian general *

Aristoxenus Aristoxenus of Tarentum ( el, Ἀριστόξενος ὁ Ταραντῖνος; born 375, fl. 335 BC) was a Greek Peripatetic philosopher, and a pupil of Aristotle. Most of his writings, which dealt with philosophy, ethics and music, have been ...

– philosopher and music theorist *

Arius Didymus Arius Didymus ( grc-gre, Ἄρειος Δίδυμος ''Areios Didymos''; fl. 1st century BCE) was a Stoic philosopher and teacher of Augustus. Fragments of his handbooks summarizing Stoic and Peripatetic doctrines are preserved by Stobaeus and Eus ...

– philosophy teacher *

Arius Arius (; grc-koi, Ἄρειος, ; 250 or 256 – 336) was a Cyrenaic presbyter, ascetic, and priest best known for the doctrine of Arianism. His teachings about the nature of the Godhead in Christianity, which emphasized God the Father's un ...

– Christian heretic *

Arrian Arrian of Nicomedia (; Greek: ''Arrianos''; la, Lucius Flavius Arrianus; ) was a Greek historian, public servant, military commander and philosopher of the Roman period. ''The Anabasis of Alexander'' by Arrian is considered the best ...

– historian * Arsecilas – king of Cyrene *

Arsinoe I of Egypt Arsinoe I ( el, Αρσινόη Α’, 305 BC – after c. 248 BC), Footnote 10 was queen of Egypt by marriage to Ptolemy II Philadelphus. Life Arsinoe was the second daughter and youngest child born to King Lysimachus and Nicaea of Macedon. Her ...

– Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *

Arsinoe II of Egypt Arsinoë II ( grc-koi, Ἀρσινόη, 316 BC – unknown date between July 270 and 260 BC) was a Ptolemaic queen and co-regent of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of ancient Egypt. She was given the Egyptian title "King of Upper and Lower Egypt", making ...

– Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *

Arsinoe III of Egypt Arsinoe III Philopator ( grc, Ἀρσινόη ἡ Φιλοπάτωρ, which means "Arsinoe the father-loving", 246 or 245 BC – 204 BC) was Queen of Ptolemaic Egypt in 220 – 204 BC. She was a daughter of Ptolemy III and Berenice II. She wa ...

– Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *

Artemidorus Artemidorus Daldianus ( grc-gre, Ἀρτεμίδωρος ὁ Δαλδιανός) or Ephesius was a professional diviner who lived in the 2nd century AD. He is known from an extant five-volume Greek work, the '' Oneirocritica'' or ''Oneirokritikon ...

– three; grammarian, two travellers *

Artemisia I of Caria Artemisia I of Caria ( grc, Ἀρτεμισία; fl. 480 BC) was a queen of the ancient Greek city-state of Halicarnassus and of the nearby islands of Kos, Nisyros and Kalymnos,Enc. Britannica, "Artemisia I" within the Achaemenid satrapy of Ca ...

(fl. 480 BC), queen of Halicarnassus under the First Persian Empire, naval commander during the second Persian invasion of Greece *

Artemisia II of Caria Artemisia II of Caria (Ancient Greek, Greek: Ἀρτεμισία; died 350 BC) was a naval strategist, commander and Sibling marriage#Sibling marriage and incest, the sister (and later spouse) and the successor of Mausolus, ruler of Caria. Mauso ...

(died 350 BC), queen of Caria under the First Persian Empire, ordered the construction of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus *

Artemon Artemon ( grc, Ἀρτέμων) (fl. c. 230 AD), a prominent Christian teacher in Rome, who held Adoptionist, or Nontrinitarian views. We know little about his life for certain. He is mentioned as the leader of a nontrinitarian sect at Rome in ...

– five scholars *

– painter *Artemon of

Clazomenae Klazomenai ( grc, Κλαζομεναί) or Clazomenae was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia and a member of the Ionian League. It was one of the first cities to issue silver coinage. Its ruins are now located in the modern town Urla n ...

– engineer *Arxilaidas (Ἀρξιλαΐδας) - Laconian general * Asclepiades – four scholars *

Asclepigenia Asclepigenia ( grc-gre, Ἀσκληπιγένεια; fl. 430 – 485 AD) was an Athenian philosopher and mystic. Biography Asclepigenia was the daughter of Plutarch of Athens. She studied and taught, alongside her brother Hierius, at the Neoplato ...

– Athenian mystic and philosopher, daughter of

Plutarch of Athens Plutarch of Athens ( el, Πλούταρχος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; c. 350 – 430 AD) was a Greek philosopher and Neoplatonist who taught in Athens at the beginning of the 5th century. He reestablished the Platonic Academy there and became its ...

* Asclepiodotus – scholar *

Asius of Samos Asius of Samos ( grc-gre, Ἄσιος ὁ Σάμιος, ''Asios ho Samios'') was an ancient Greek poet whose work survives in the form of fragments quoted by other ancient authors. All that is known about the man is that he was from Samos and that ...

– poet * Asmonius – grammarian *

Aspasia Aspasia (; grc-gre, Ἀσπασία ; after 428 BC) was a ''metic'' woman in Classical Athens. Born in Miletus, she moved to Athens and began a relationship with the statesman Pericles, with whom she had a son, Pericles the Younger. Accordin ...

–

hetaera Hetaira (plural hetairai (), also hetaera (plural hetaerae ), ( grc, ἑταίρα, "companion", pl. , la, hetaera, pl. ) was a type of prostitute in ancient Greece, who served as an artist, entertainer and conversationalist in addition to pro ...

of Pericles *

Aspasius Aspasius (; grc-gre, Ἀσπάσιος; c. 80 – c. 150 AD) was a Peripatetic philosopher. Boethius, who frequently refers to his works, says that Aspasius wrote commentaries on most of the works of Aristotle. The following commentaries are ex ...

– philosopher * Astydamas – two poets *

Astyochus Astyochus or Astyochos ( gr, Ἀστύοχος) was a Spartan Spartan navarch, navarch who served as commander of the collective Spartan naval forces along the coast of Asia Minor from 412–411 BC. He is regarded by many contemporaries and modern s ...

– Spartan general *

Athenaeus Athenaeus of Naucratis (; grc, Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; la, Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of th ...

– two scholars, physician * Athenais – prophet who told Alexander the Great of his allegedly divine ancestry *

Athenagoras of Athens Athenagoras (; grc-gre, Ἀθηναγόρας ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; c. 133 – c. 190 AD) was a Father of the Church, an Ante-Nicene Christian apologist who lived during the second half of the 2nd century of whom little is known for certain, ...

– apologist * Athenodorus – philosopher * Athenodorus – actor *

Attalus I Attalus I ( grc, Ἄτταλος Α΄), surnamed ''Soter'' ( el, , "Savior"; 269–197 BC) ruled Pergamon, an Ionian Greek polis (what is now Bergama, Turkey), first as dynast, later as king, from 241 BC to 197 BC. He was the first ...

– Attalid king of Pergamum *

Attalus II Attalus II Philadelphus (Greek: Ἄτταλος Β΄ ὁ Φιλάδελφος, ''Attalos II Philadelphos'', which means "Attalus the brother-loving"; 220–138 BC) was a Greek King of Pergamon and the founder of the city of Attalia (Antalya) ...

– Attalid king of Pergamum *

Attalus III Attalus III ( el, Ἄτταλος Γ΄) Philometor Euergetes ( – 133 BC) was the last Attalid king of Pergamon, ruling from 138 BC to 133 BC. Biography Attalus III was the son of king Eumenes II and his queen Stratonice of Pergamon, and h ...

– Attalid king of Pergamum *

Autocrates Autocrates ( grc, Αὐτοκράτης) was an Ancient Athenian poet of the old comedy. One of his plays is mentioned by Suidas and Aelian. He also wrote several tragedies. The Autocrates quoted by Athenaeus Athenaeus of Naucratis (; gr ...

– Athenian comic poet *

Autolycus of Pitane Autolycus of Pitane ( el, Αὐτόλυκος ὁ Πιταναῖος; c. 360 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, and geographer. The lunar crater Autolycus was named in his honour. Life and work Autolycus was born in Pitane, ...

– astronomer *Avaris – priest of Apollo (or

Abaris the Hyperborean In Greek mythology, Abaris the Hyperborean ( grc, Ἄβαρις Ὑπερβόρειος ''Abaris Hyperboreios''), son of Seuthes (Σεύθης), was a legendary sage, healer, and priest of Apollo known to the Ancient Greeks. He was supposed to h ...

?) * Axiochus – Alcmaeonid aristocrat * Axionicus – Middle Comedy poet *

Axiothea of Phlius Axiothea of Phlius ( el, Ἀξιοθέα Φλειασία ) was a female student of Plato and Speusippus. She was born in Phlius, an ancient city in the Peloponnese which was under Spartan rule when Plato founded his Academy. Axiothea is said b ...

– female student of Plato

B

Babrius Babrius ( grc-gre, Βάβριος, ''Bábrios''; century),"Babrius" in ''Chambers's Encyclopædia''. London: George Newnes, 1961, Vol. 2, p. 21. also known as Babrias () or Gabrias (), was the author of a collection of Greek fables, many of which ...

– fabulist *

Bacchylides Bacchylides (; grc-gre, Βακχυλίδης; – ) was a Greek lyric poet. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of Nine Lyric Poets, which included his uncle Simonides. The elegance and polished style of his lyrics have been noted i ...

– poet *

Basil of Caesarea Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great ( grc, Ἅγιος Βασίλειος ὁ Μέγας, ''Hágios Basíleios ho Mégas''; cop, Ⲡⲓⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲓⲟⲥ; 330 – January 1 or 2, 379), was a bishop of Ca ...

– Christian saint *

Basilides Basilides (Greek: Βασιλείδης) was an early Christian Gnostic religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt who taught from 117 to 138 AD, notes that to prove that the heretical sects were "later than the catholic Church," Clement of Alexandri ...

– philosopher *

Bathycles of Magnesia Bathycles of Magnesia ( el, Βαθυκλής) was an Ionian sculptor of Magnesia on the Maeander. Not alluding to baths or magnesium baths. He was commissioned by the Spartans to make a marble throne for the statue of Apollo at Amyclae, about 550 BC ...

– sculptor * Battus – founder of Cyrene *

Berenice I of Egypt Berenice I ( grc-gre, Βερενίκη; c. 340 BC – between 279 and 268 BC) was Queen of Egypt by marriage to Ptolemy I Soter. She became the second queen, after Eurydice, of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt. Life Family Berenice was originally f ...

– Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *

Berenice II of Egypt Berenice II Euergetis (267 or 266 BC – 221 BC; , ''Berenikē Euergetis'', "Berenice the Benefactress") was queen regnant of Cyrenaica from 258 BC to 246 BC and co-regent queen of Ptolemaic Egypt from 246 BC to 222 BC as the wife of Ptolemy III. ...

– Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *

Berenice IV of Egypt Berenice IV Epiphaneia ( grc-gre, Βερενίκη; 77–55 BC, born and died in Alexandria, Egypt) was a Greek princess and Queen of the Ptolemaic dynasty. From 58–55 BC, Berenice IV ruled Egypt during the political exile of her father Ptolemy ...

– Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *

Bias of Priene Bias (; Greek: Βίας ὁ Πριηνεύς; fl. 6th century BC) of Priene was a Greek sage. He is widely accepted as one of the Seven Sages of Greece and was renowned for his probity. Life Bias was born at Priene (modern-day Güllübahçe, Tur ...

, one of the Seven Sages of Greece * Bion *

Bion the Borysthenite Bion of Borysthenes ( el, Βίων Βορυσθενίτης, ''gen''.: Βίωνος; BC) was a Greek philosopher. After being sold into slavery, and then released, he moved to Athens, where he studied in almost every school of philosophy. It ...

Biton of Syracuse Biton (Hebrew: ביטון) is a Maghrebi Jewish surname which is common in Israel. It may refer to: * Avraham Biton (1923-2005), Israeli politician * Charlie Biton (born 1947), former Israeli politician * Dan Biton (born 1961), general in the Israe ...

Boethus Boëthus ( el, Βόηθος) was a Greek sculptor of the Hellenistic age. His life dates cannot be accurately fixed, but he probably flourished in the 2nd century BCE. One source gives his birthplace as Chalcedon. He was noted for his representa ...

– two sculptors *

Boethus of Sidon Boethus of Sidon ( grc-gre, Βόηθος, Bóēthos; – ) was a Peripatetic philosopher from Sidon, who lived towards the end of the 1st century BC. None of his work has been preserved and the complete collection of quotings and paraphrases appe ...

– two philosophers *Bolus – writer * Boukris – pirate *

Brasidas Brasidas ( el, Βρασίδας, died 422 BC) was the most distinguished Spartan officer during the first decade of the Peloponnesian War who fought in battle of Amphipolis and Pylos. He died during the Second Battle of Amphipolis while winning o ...

– Spartan general * Brygus – potter * Bryson – philosopher *

Bupalus Bupalus ( el, Βούπαλος) and Athenis ( el, Ἄθηνις), were sons of Archermus, and members of the celebrated school of sculpture in marble which flourished in Chios in the 6th century BC. They were contemporaries of the poet Hipponax, ...

– sculptor

C

Cadmus of Miletus Cadmus of Miletus ( grc, Κάδμος ὁ Μιλήσιος, ''Kádmos ho Milésios'') was according to some ancient authorities, the oldest of the logographi. Scholars who accept this view, assign him to about 550 BC; others regard him as purely m ...

– one of the first logographers *

Caecilius of Calacte Caecilius of Calacte was a rhetorician and literary critic active in Rome during the reign of Augustus. The main source of information about Caecilius' life is the Suda, which says that he was from Sicily, originally called Archagathus, possib ...

– rhetorician *

Caesarion Ptolemy XV Caesar). (; grc-gre, Πτολεμαῖος ; 23 June 47 BC – August 30 BC), nicknamed Caesarion (, "Little Caesar"), was the last pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt, reigning with his mother Cleopatra from 2 September 44 BC until her de ...

– son of Cleopatra VII, possibly by

Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and ...

* Calamis – 2 sculptors * Calliades – archon of Athens *

Callia ''Callia'' is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae.Biolib.cz - ''Callia''
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– three; Athenian statesman, comic poet, nobleman *

Callias of Syracuse Callias ( gr, Καλλίας, Kallias) was an Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek statesman, soldier and diplomat, active in 5th century BC. He is commonly known as Callias II to distinguish him from his grandfather, Callias I, and from his grandson, Ca ...

– historian *

Callicrates Callicrates or Kallikrates (; el, Καλλικράτης ) was an ancient Greek architect active in the middle of the fifth century BC. He and Ictinus were architects of the Parthenon (Plutarch, ''Pericles'', 13). An inscription identifies him a ...

– architect * Calicrates of Leontium – Acheaean statesman *

Callicratidas Callicratidas ( el, Καλλικρατίδας) was a Spartan navarch during the Peloponnesian War. He belonged to the mothax class so he was not a Spartiate, despite his status he had risen to prominence. In 406 BC, he was sent to the Aegean to ta ...

– Spartan general *Callicratidas of Cyrene, a general * Callicratides – Spartan general *

Callimachus (polemarch) Callimachus ( el, Καλλίμαχος ''Kallímakhos'') was the Athenian polemarch at the Battle of Marathon, which took place during 490 BC. According to Herodotus he was from the Attica deme of Afidnes. The Battle of Marathon As polemarc ...

– Athenian general *

Callimachus (sculptor) Callimachus ( grc, Καλλίμαχος ) was an architect and sculptor working in the second half of the 5th century BC in the manner established by Polyclitus. He was credited with work in both Athens and Corinth and was probably from one of the ...

– sculptor *

Callimachus Callimachus (; ) was an ancient Greek poet, scholar and librarian who was active in Alexandria during the 3rd century BC. A representative of Ancient Greek literature of the Hellenistic period, he wrote over 800 literary works in a wide variety ...

– poet *

Callinus Callinus ( grc, Καλλῖνος, ''Kallinos''; fl. mid-7th c. BC) was an ancient Greek elegiac poet who lived in the city of Ephesus in Asia Minor in the mid-7th century BC. His poetry is representative of the genre of martial exhortation elegy i ...

– poet *

Calliphon Calliphon (or Callipho, grc-x-koine, Καλλιφῶν) was a Greek philosopher, who probably belonged to the Peripatetic school and lived in the 2nd century . He is mentioned several times and condemned by Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ...

– philosopher *

Callippides Callippides (Καλλιππίδης) or Callippos (Κάλλιππος) was apparently an ancient Greek runner, who gave his name to a proverb for those making great efforts but no progress. Instances In 45 B.C., Cicero complains in a letter to Titu ...

– runner *

Callippus Callippus (; grc, Κάλλιππος; c. 370 BC – c. 300 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician. Biography Callippus was born at Cyzicus, and studied under Eudoxus of Cnidus at the Academy of Plato. He also worked with Aristotle at th ...

– astronomer *

Callisthenes Callisthenes of Olynthus (; grc-gre, Καλλισθένης; 360327 BCE) was a well-connected Greek historian in Macedon, who accompanied Alexander the Great during his Asiatic expedition. The philosopher Aristotle was Callisthenes's great ...

– historian *

Callisthenes (Seleucid) Callisthenes (; , ) was a Syrian who was believed to have been involved in the burning of the gates of the Second Temple during the persecution to which the Jews were subjected in the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes. When the Jews were celebrating the ...

* Callistratus – four; grammarian, poet, sophist, orator *

Carcinus (writer) Carcinus ( el, Καρκίνος) was an Ancient Greek tragedian from Thoricus, the son of the playwright Xenocles and grandson of Carcinus. The ''Suda'' records that he wrote one hundred and sixty plays. He won eleven victories at the ''Dionysia'' ...

– tragedian *

Carneades Carneades (; el, Καρνεάδης, ''Karneadēs'', "of Carnea"; 214/3–129/8 BC) was a Greek philosopher and perhaps the most prominent head of the Skeptical Academy in ancient Greece. He was born in Cyrene. By the year 159 BC, he had begu ...

– philosopher *

Cassander Cassander ( el, Κάσσανδρος ; c. 355 BC – 297 BC) was king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia from 305 BC until 297 BC, and ''de facto'' ruler of southern Greece from 317 BC until his death. A son of Antipater and a cont ...

– King of Macedon *

Castor of Rhodes Castor of Rhodes ( el, Κάστωρ ὁ Ῥόδιος), also known as Castor of Massalia or Castor of Galatia according to the '' Suda'', or as Castor the Annalist, was a Greek grammarian and rhetorician. He was surnamed Philoromaeus (Φιλορώ� ...

– rhetorician *

Cebes Cebes of Thebes ( el, Κέβης Θηβαῖος, ''gen''.: Κέβητος; ''c''. 430 – 350 BCEDebra Nails, (2002), ''The people of Plato: a prosopography of Plato and other Socratics'', page 82.) was an Ancient Greek philosopher from Thebes rem ...

– two philosophers *

Celsus Celsus (; grc-x-hellen, Κέλσος, ''Kélsos''; ) was a 2nd-century Greek philosopher and opponent of early Christianity. His literary work, ''The True Word'' (also ''Account'', ''Doctrine'' or ''Discourse''; Greek: grc-x-hellen, Λόγ� ...

– theologian * Cephidorus – two; Old Comedy poet, writer * Cephisodotus – two sculptors *

Cercidas Cercidas ( grc, Κερκιδᾶς ''Kerkidas''; fl. 3rd century BC) was a poet, Cynic philosopher, and legislator for his native city Megalopolis. A papyrus roll containing fragments from seven of his Cynic poems was discovered at Oxyrhynchus in ...

– politician/philosopher/poet *

Cercops of Miletus Aegimius (Ancient Greek: Αἰγίμιος) was the Greek mythological ancestor of the Dorians, who is described as their king and lawgiver at the time when they were yet inhabiting the northern parts of Thessaly. Mythology Aegimius asked Hera ...

– poet *

Chabrias Chabrias ( el, Χαβρίας; bef. 420–357 BC) was an Athenian general active in the first half of the 4th century BC. During his career he was involved in several battles, both on land and sea. The orator Demosthenes described him as one o ...

– Athenian general *

Chaeremon Chaeremon (; grc-gre, Χαιρήμων, ''gen.:'' Χαιρήμονος) was an Athenian dramatist of the first half of the fourth century BCE. He was generally considered a tragic poet like Choerilus. Aristotle said his works were intended for ...

– tragic poet *

Chaeremon of Alexandria Chaeremon of Alexandria (; grc-gre, Χαιρήμων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, ''gen.:'' grc, Χαιρήμονος; fl. 1st century AD) was a Stoic philosopher and historian. His father – about whom nothing is known – was called L ...

– teacher *

Chaeris ''The Acharnians'' or ''Acharnians'' (Ancient Greek: ''Akharneîs''; Attic: ) is the third play — and the earliest of the eleven surviving plays — by the Athenian playwright Aristophanes. It was produced in 425 BC on behalf of the young dram ...

– writer *

Chaeron of Pellene Chaeron ( grc, Χαίρων) was a wrestler and tyrant from Pellene, ancient Achaea. Chaeron won at the Isthmian Games, possibly twice, and four times at the Ancient Olympic Games, between 356 BC and 344 BC. Alexander the Great made him tyrant of P ...

– tyrant of Pellene *

Chamaeleon Chamaeleon () is a small constellation in the deep southern sky. It is named after the chameleon, a kind of lizard. It was first defined in the 16th century. History Chamaeleon was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius fro ...

– writer *

Charax (writer) Charax (Χάραξ) may refer to: * Charax, alternate name of Acharaca, an ancient oracle site in Lydia, Anatolia * Charax, alternate name of Charakipolis, an ancient town in Lydia, Anatolia * Charax, alternate name of Tralles, an ancient city in L ...

– writer *

Chares of Athens Chares of Athens () was a 4th-century BC Athenian military commander (Strategos), who for a number of years was one of Athens's foremost commanders. He was also a well connected politician enabling him to procure the commands he desired, commands ...

– general *

Chares of Lindos Chares of Lindos (; grc-gre, Χάρης ὁ Λίνδιος, ''gen.:'' Χάρητος; before 305 BC-c. 280 BC) was a Greek sculptor born on the island of Rhodes. He was a pupil of Lysippos. Chares constructed the Colossus of Rhodes in 282 ...

– sculptor *

Chares of Mytilene Chares of Mytilene ( grc, Χάρης ὁ Μυτιληναῖος) was a Greek belonging to the court of Alexander the Great. He was appointed court-marshal or introducer of strangers to the king, an office borrowed from the Persian court. He wrote ...

– historian *

Charidemus Charidemus (or Kharidemos, grc-gre, Χαρίδημος), of Oreus in Euboea, was an ancient Greek mercenary leader of the 4th century BC. He had a complicated relationship with Athens, sometimes aiding the city in its efforts to secure its interes ...

– Euboean soldier * Charillus – King of Sparta *

Chariton Chariton of Aphrodisias ( grc-gre, Χαρίτων ὁ Ἀφροδισιεύς) was the author of an ancient Greek novel probably titled ''Callirhoe'' (based on the subscription in the sole surviving manuscript). However, it is regularly referred to ...

– writer *

Charmadas Charmadas ( el, Χαρμάδας; also Charmides (Χαρμίδης); 168/7 – 103/91 BC) was a Greeks, Greek Academic skepticism, Academic Skeptic philosopher and a disciple of Carneades at the Platonic Academy, Academy in Athens. He was famous for ...

– philosopher * Charmidas – Athenian noble *

Charmus Charmus of Kolyttus ( mid-6th century BCE) was an Athenian polemarch (557/6) during the Pisistratid dynasty, and also ''eromenos'' of Pisistratus.Plutarch''Life of Solon'' 1.4/ref> He is known for being the father of Hipparchus of the deme Cholar ...

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Athenian Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

polemarch A polemarch (, from , ''polemarchos'') was a senior military title in various ancient Greek city states (''poleis''). The title is derived from the words ''polemos'' (war) and '' archon'' (ruler, leader) and translates as "warleader" or "warlord" ...

Charon of Lampsacus In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (; grc, Χάρων) is a psychopomp, the ferryman of Greek underworld, Hades, the Greek underworld. He carries the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the rivers Acheron and Styx, which ...

– writer *

Charondas Charondas ( grc-gre, Χαρώνδας) was a celebrated lawgiver of Catania in Sicily. It is uncertain when he lived; some identify him as a pupil of Pythagoras (c. 580 – 504 BC), but all that can be said is that he lived earlier tha ...

– lawgiver *

Cheramyes Cheramyes was a nobleman on the island of Samos, Greece. He apparently lived during the mid-6th century BC. The only ancient references to him are the dedications of several statues A statue is a free-standing sculpture in which the realistic, ...

– nobleman of Samos *Cheilonis (Χειλωνὶς) - wife of the Spartan King

Theopompus Theopompus ( grc-gre, Θεόπομπος, ''Theópompos''; c. 380 BCc. 315 BC) was an ancient Greek historian and rhetorician. Biography Theopompus was born on the Aegean island of Chios. In early youth, he seems to have spent some time at Athen ...

Polyaenus, Stratagems, Book 8, 34
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Chilon Chilon of Sparta ( grc, Χείλων) (fl. 6th century BC) was a Spartan and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Life Chilon was the son of Damagetus, and lived towards the beginning of the 6th century BC. Herodotus speaks of him as contemporary ...

– Spartan ephor *

Chionides Chionides (Greek: Χιονίδης or Χιωνίδης) an Athenian comic poet of the 5th century BC, contemporary of Magnes. The ''Suda'' says that Chionides flourished eight years before the Greco-Persian Wars, that is, 487 BC. But Augustus Mein ...

– comic poet * Choerilus – Athenian tragic poet *

Choerilus of Iasus Choerilus of Iasus ( grc-gre, Χοιρίλος) was an epic poet of Iasus in Caria, who lived in the 4th century BC. He accompanied Alexander the Great on his campaigns as court-poet. He is well known from the passages in Horace according to which ...

– epic poet *

Choerilus of Samos Choerilus of Samos ( grc-gre, Χοιρίλος ὁ Σάμιος) was an epic poet of Samos, who flourished at the end of the 5th century BC. Biography After the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War, Choerilus settled at the court of Arch ...

– epic poet *

Chremonides Chremonides ( grc-gre, Χρεμωνίδης), son of Eteokles of Aithalidai, was an Athenian 3rd century BC statesman and general. He issued the Decree of Chremonides in 268 BC, creating an alliance between Sparta, Athens, and Ptolemy II, the Ma ...

– Athenian statesman *

Christodorus Christodorus ( el, Χριστόδωρος), a Greek epic poet from Coptos in Egypt, flourished during the reign of Anastasius I (491–518). His father was named Paniskos (Πανίσκος). According to Suidas, he was the author of ''Patria'' (Gr ...

– epic poet *

Chrysanthius Chrysanthius of Sardis ( grc-gre, Χρυσάνθιος) was a Greek philosopher of the 4th century AD who studied at the school of Iamblichus. He was one of the favorite pupils of Aedesius, and devoted himself mainly to the mystical side of Neopla ...

– philosopher *

Chrysippus Chrysippus of Soli (; grc-gre, Χρύσιππος ὁ Σολεύς, ; ) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was a native of Soli, Cilicia, but moved to Athens as a young man, where he became a pupil of the Stoic philosopher Cleanthes. When Clean ...

– philosopher *

Dio Chrysostom Dio Chrysostom (; el, Δίων Χρυσόστομος ''Dion Chrysostomos''), Dion of Prusa or Cocceianus Dio (c. 40 – c. 115 AD), was a Greek orator, writer, philosopher and historian of the Roman Empire in the 1st century AD. Eighty of his ...

– orator *

John Chrysostom John Chrysostom (; gr, Ἰωάννης ὁ Χρυσόστομος; 14 September 407) was an important Early Church Father who served as archbishop of Constantinople. He is known for his homilies, preaching and public speaking, his denunciat ...

– theologian *

Cimon Cimon or Kimon ( grc-gre, Κίμων; – 450BC) was an Athenian ''strategos'' (general and admiral) and politician. He was the son of Miltiades, also an Athenian ''strategos''. Cimon rose to prominence for his bravery fighting in the naval Batt ...

– Athenian statesman *

Cimon of Cleonae Cimon of Cleonae was an early painter of ancient Greece. He was said to have introduced great improvements in drawing. He represented figures, according to Pliny Pliny may refer to: People * Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE), ancient Roman ...

– painter * Cinaethon of Lacedaemon – epic poet *

Cineas Cineas ( el, Κινέας) was a man from Thessaly and an important adviser of King Pyrrhus. He had a reputation for great wisdom and was a pupil of Demosthenes the orator and was the only man who could be compared in skill with Demosthenes. Py ...

– Thessalian diplomat * Cineas (Athenian) – fought at the

Battle of Mantinea (362 BC) The (second) Battle of Mantinea or Mantineia was fought on 4 July 362 BC between the Thebans, led by Epaminondas and supported by the Arcadians and the Boeotian league against the Spartans, led by King Agesilaus II and supported by the Eleans, ...

* Cinesias – Athenian poet *Cleadas (Κλεάδας) – father of Cheilonis who was the wife of the Spartan King

Cleandridas Cleandridas or Cleandrides (Greek: Κλεανδρίδας or Κλεανδρίδης) was a Spartan general of the 5th century BCE, who advised the young Agiad king Pleistoanax during the early part of the latter's reign. According to Plutarch, bot ...

– Spartan statesman *

Cleanthes Cleanthes (; grc-gre, Κλεάνθης; c. 330 BC – c. 230 BC), of Assos, was a Greek Stoic philosopher and boxer who was the successor to Zeno of Citium as the second head (''scholarch'') of the Stoic school in Athens. Originally a boxer, he ...

– philosopher *

Clearchus of Athens The name Clearchus or Clearch may refer to: * Clearchus of Athens, Greek comic poet * Clearchus of Heraclea (c. 401 BCE – 353 BCE), Greek tyrant of Heraclea Pontica * Clearchus of Rhegium, Greek sculptor, pupil of Eucheirus, teacher of Pythagoras ...

– comic poet * Clearchus of Herachleia *

Clearchus of Rhegium Clearchus or Clearch ( el, Κλέαρχος, ''Klearkhos'') was a sculpture, sculptor in bronze at Rhegium (modern Reggio Calabria). He is notable as the teacher of the celebrated Pythagoras (sculptor), Pythagoras, who flourished at the time of Myr ...

– sculptor, teacher of Pythagoras *

Clearchus of Sparta Clearchus or Clearch ( grc, Κλέαρχος; 450 BC – 401 BC), the son of Rhamphias, was a Spartan general and mercenary, noted for his service under Cyrus the Younger. Biography Peloponnesian War Born about the middle of the 5th century ...

– general, son of Rhampias *

Clearchus of Soli Clearchus of Soli ( el, Kλέαρχoς ὁ Σολεύς, ''Klearkhos ho Soleus'') was a Greek philosopher of the 4th–3rd century BCE, belonging to Aristotle's Peripatetic school. He was born in Soli in Cyprus. He wrote extensively on eastern cul ...

– author, pupil of Aristotle *

Clearidas (general) ''Clearidas '' is a genus of Cricket in family Gryllidae The family ''Gryllidae'' contains the subfamilies and genera which entomologists now term true crickets. Having long, whip-like antennae, they belong to the Orthopteran suborder Ensife ...

– Spartan general * Cledonius – grammarian *

Cleidemus Cleidemus (; grc-gre, Κλείδημος ''Kleidēmos'') was a Greek author, perhaps of the fifth or fourth century BCE but definitely later than the battle of Plataea in 479 BCE, who produced a lost ''Atthis'' (Ἀτθίς), a local history of Ath ...

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atthidographer In ancient Greece, Atthidographers ( grc, Ἀτθιδογράφος, ''atthidographos'') were local historians of Attica. They wrote histories of Athens called ''Atthides'' (singular: ''Atthis''). Atthidography is the best-attested genre of loca ...

Cleinias Cleinias ( grc, Κλεινίας), father of Alcibiades, brother of Axiochus, and member of the Alcmaeonidae family, was an Athenian who married Deinomache, the daughter of Megacles, and became the father of the famous Alcibiades. Plutarch tells ...

– Athenian general, father of Alcibiades *

– Athenian statesman *

Cleisthenes of Sicyon Cleisthenes ( ; grc-gre, Κλεισθένης) was the tyrant of Sicyon from c. 600–560 BC, who aided in the First Sacred War against Kirrha that destroyed that city in 595 BC. He was also said to have organized a successful war against Argos ...

– tyrant of Sicyon *

Cleitarchus Cleitarchus or Clitarchus ( el, Κλείταρχος) was one of the historians of Alexander the Great. Son of the historian Dinon of Colophon, he spent a considerable time at the court of Ptolemy Lagus. He was active in the mid to late 4th centu ...

– historian * Cleitus – two Macedonian nobles *

Clement of Alexandria Titus Flavius Clemens, also known as Clement of Alexandria ( grc , Κλήμης ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; – ), was a Christian theologian and philosopher who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria. Among his pupils were Origen and ...

– theologian *

Cleombrotus I Cleombrotus I ( el, Κλεόμβροτος ; died 6 July 371 BC) was a Spartan king of the Agiad line, reigning from 380 BC until 371 BC. Little is known of Cleombrotus' early life. Son of Pausanias, he became king of Sparta after the death of hi ...

– King of Sparta *

Cleomedes Cleomedes ( el, Κλεομήδης) was a Greek astronomer who is known chiefly for his book ''On the Circular Motions of the Celestial Bodies'' (Κυκλικὴ θεωρία μετεώρων), also known as ''The Heavens'' ( la, Caelestia). Pla ...

– astronomer *

Cleomenes I Cleomenes I (; Greek Κλεομένης; died c. 490 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from c. 524 to c. 490 BC. One of the most important Spartan kings, Cleomenes was instrumental in organising the Greek resistance against the Persian Empire of Dariu ...

– King of Sparta *

Cleomenes II Cleomenes II ( grc-gre, Κλεομένης; died 309 BC) was king of Sparta from 370 to 309 BC. He was the second son of Cleombrotus I, and grandfather of Areus I, who succeeded him. Although he reigned for more than 60 years, his life ...

– King of Sparta *

Cleomenes III Cleomenes III ( grc, Κλεομένης) was one of the two kings of Sparta from 235 to 222 BC. He was a member of the Agiad dynasty and succeeded his father, Leonidas II. He is known for his attempts to reform the Spartan state. From 229 to 22 ...

– King of Sparta *

Cleomenes (seer) Cleomenes was a seer in Alexander's entourage, who in 328 BC interpreted an unfavorable omen for the king at the time of the Cleitus affair. Cleomenes was one of several men who slept in the alleged temple of Serapis Serapis or Sarapis is a ...

– seer *

Cleomenes of Naucratis Cleomenes (Greek: Kλεoμένης ''Kleoménes''; died 322 BC), a Greek of Naucratis in Ancient Egypt, was appointed by Alexander III of Macedon as nomarch of the Arabian Nome (''νoμoς'') of Egypt and receiver of the tributes from all the ...

– administrator *

Cleon Cleon (; grc-gre, Κλέων, ; died 422 BC) was an Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War. He was the first prominent representative of the commercial class in Athenian politics, although he was an aristocrat himself. He strongly advocate ...

– Athenian statesman *

Cleon of Sicyon Cleon (; el, Κλέων ''Kleon'', ) was a tyrant of the ancient Greek city-state of Sicyon.Pausanias, ''Geography'2.8/ref> According to Plutarch, he was assassinated and Timocleidas and Cleinias Cleinias ( grc, Κλεινίας), father of ...

– tyrant *

Cleonides Cleonides ( el, Κλεονείδης) is the author of a Greek treatise on music theory titled Εἰσαγωγὴ ἁρμονική ''Eisagōgē harmonikē'' (Introduction to Harmonics). The date of the treatise, based on internal evidence, can be e ...

– writer * Cleonymus – Spartan general *

Cleopatra I of Egypt Cleopatra I Syra (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα ἡ Σύρα; c. 204 – 176 BC) was a princess of the Seleucid Empire, Queen of Ptolemaic Egypt by marriage to Ptolemy V of Egypt, and regent of Egypt during the minority of their son, Ptolemy VI ...

– Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *

Cleopatra II of Egypt Cleopatra II (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα; c. 185 BC – 116/115 BC) was a queen of Ptolemaic Egypt who ruled from 175 to 115 BC with two successive brother-husbands and her daughter—often in rivalry with her brother Ptolemy VIII. She co- ...

– Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *

Cleopatra III of Egypt Cleopatra III ( grc-gre, Κλεοπάτρα; c.160–101 BC) was a queen of Egypt. She ruled at first with her mother Cleopatra II and husband Ptolemy VIII from 142 to 131 BC and again from 127 to 116 BC. She then ruled with her sons Ptolem ...

– Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *

Cleopatra IV of Egypt Cleopatra IV ( grc-gre, Κλεοπάτρα) was Queen of Egypt briefly from 116 to 115 BC, jointly with her husband Ptolemy IX Lathyros. She later became queen consort of Syria as the wife of Antiochus IX Cyzicenus.Aidan Dodson, Dyan Hilton, The ...

– Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *

Cleopatra Thea Cleopatra Thea ( el, Κλεοπάτρα Θεά, which means "Cleopatra the Goddess"; c. 164 – 121 BC) surnamed Eueteria (i.e., "good-harvest/fruitful season") was the ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. She was queen consort of Syria f ...

– Seleucid king of Syria *

Cleopatra V of Egypt Cleopatra V ( el, Κλεοπάτρα Τρύφαινα; died or ) was a Ptolemaic Queen of Egypt. She is the only surely attested wife of Ptolemy XII. Her only known child is Berenice IV, but she was also probably the mother of Cleopatra VII ...

– Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *

Cleopatra VI of Egypt Cleopatra VI Tryphaena ( el, Κλεοπάτρα Τρύφαινα) or Cleopatra Tryphaena II (died c. 57 BC) was a queen of Ptolemaic Egypt who ruled alongside Berenice IV, who was either her sister or daughter. Although called ''Cleopatra VI Try ...

– Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *

Cleopatra VII of Egypt Cleopatra VII Philopator ( grc-gre, Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ}, "Cleopatra the father-beloved"; 69 BC10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. ...

– Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt * Cleophon – two; Athenian statesman, tragic poet *

Clitomachus (philosopher) Clitomachus or Cleitomachus ( grc-gre, Κλειτόμαχος, ''Kleitómakhos''; 187/6–110/9BC) was a Greek philosopher, originally from Carthage, who came to Athens in 163/2BC and studied philosophy under Carneades. He became head of the Acad ...

– philosopher * Clitophon – oligarchic statesman *

Cnemus Cnemus (Greek: Κνῆμος) was the Spartan fleet commander during the second and third years (430–29 BC) of the Archidamian War. During his command, Cnemus oversaw a series of operations that met with failure. As a result, the Spartans began ...

– Spartan general *

Colaeus Colaeus ( el, Κωλαῖος) was an ancient Samian explorer and silver merchant, who according to Herodotus (Hdt. 4.152) arrived at Tartessos c. 640 BC. In an era where most Greek traders were anonymous, Herodotus believed that Colaeus and So ...

– explorer *

Colluthus Coluthus or Colluthus of Lycopolis ( grc-gre, Κόλουθος, Kolouthos; ) was a Greek epic poet of the late Roman Empire who flourished during the reign of Anastasius I in the Thebaid. ''Calydoniaca'' and ''The Rape of Helen'' According to th ...

– epic poet *

Colotes (sculptor) Colotes of Lampsacus ( el, Κολώτης Λαμψακηνός, ''Kolōtēs Lampsakēnos''; c. 320 – after 268 BC) was a pupil of Epicurus. He wrote a work to prove "That it is impossible even to live according to the doctrines of the other philo ...

– sculptor * Colotes of Lampsacus – philosopher * Comeas – archon of Athens *

Conon Conon ( el, Κόνων) (before 443 BC – c. 389 BC) was an Athenian general at the end of the Peloponnesian War, who led the Athenian naval forces when they were defeated by a Peloponnesian fleet in the crucial Battle of Aegospotami; later he c ...

– Athenian general *

Conon of Samos Conon of Samos ( el, Κόνων ὁ Σάμιος, ''Konōn ho Samios''; c. 280 – c. 220 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician. He is primarily remembered for naming the constellation Coma Berenices. Life and work Conon was born on Samos ...

– astronomer *

Conon (mythographer) Conon ( grc-gre, Κόνων, ''gen''.: Κόνωνος) was a Greek grammarian and mythographer of the age of Augustus (who lived 63 BC – 14 AD), the author of a work titled (Narrations), addressed to Archelaus Philopator, king of Cappadocia. I ...

– mythographer *

Corinna Corinna or Korinna ( grc, Κόριννα, Korinna) was an ancient Greek lyric poet from Tanagra in Boeotia. Although ancient sources portray her as a contemporary of Pindar (born ), not all modern scholars accept the accuracy of this tradition ...

– poet *

Cosmas Indicopleustes Cosmas Indicopleustes ( grc-x-koine, Κοσμᾶς Ἰνδικοπλεύστης, lit=Cosmas who sailed to India; also known as Cosmas the Monk) was a Greek merchant and later hermit from Alexandria of Egypt. He was a 6th-century traveller who ma ...

– explorer *

Crantor Crantor ( el, Κράντωρ, ''gen''.: Κράντορος; died 276/5 BC) was a Greek philosopher and scholarch (leader) of the Old Academy, probably born around the middle of the 4th century BC, at Soli in Cilicia (modern-day Turkey). Life Cra ...

– philosopher *

Craterus of Macedon Crateuas ( grc, Κρατεύας, modern '), also called Craterus ( grc, Κρατερός, '), was according to some ancient sources the lover, and killer, of Archelaus I of Macedon, whom he killed to become a king himself.Pseudo-Plato, ''Alcibiades ...

– King of Macedon *

Crates of Thebes Crates ( grc-gre, Κράτης ὁ Θηβαῖος; c. 365 – c. 285 BC) of Thebes was a Greek Cynic philosopher, the principal pupil of Diogenes of Sinope and the husband of Hipparchia of Maroneia who lived in the same manner as him. Cra ...

– philosopher *

Crates of Mallus Crates of Mallus ( grc-gre, Κράτης ὁ Μαλλώτης, ''Krátēs ho Mallṓtēs''; century BC) was a Greek grammarian and Stoic philosopher, leader of the literary school and head of the library of Pergamum. He was described as the ...

– grammarian and philosopher *

Crates of Olynthys A crate is a large strong container, often made of wood. Crate may also refer to: * Crate Township, Chippewa County, Minnesota, United States * Crate Entertainment, a US video game developer * CrateIO, a fully searchable document oriented data s ...

– architect *

Cratesipolis Cratesipolis ( el, Kρατησίπoλις meaning "conqueror of the city") was the ruler of Sicyon and Corinth in 314-308 BC. She was the wife of Alexander (son of Polyperchon) and was highly distinguished for her beauty, talents, and energy. In ...

– queen * Cratippus – historian *

Cratylus Cratylus ( ; grc, Κρατύλος, ''Kratylos'') was an ancient Athenian philosopher from the mid-late 5th century BCE, known mostly through his portrayal in Plato's dialogue '' Cratylus''. He was a radical proponent of Heraclitean philosophy ...

– philosopher *

Creon Creon may refer to: Greek history * Creon, the first annual eponymous archon of Athens, 682–681 BC Greek mythology * Creon (king of Thebes), mythological king of Thebes * Creon (king of Corinth), father of Creusa/Glauce in Euripides' ''Medea' ...

– archon of Athens *

Cresilas Kresilas ( gr, Κρησίλας ''Krēsílas''; c. 480 – c. 410 BC) was a Greek sculptor in the Classical period (5th century BC), from Kydonia. He was trained in Argos and then worked in Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian War, as a follow ...

– sculptor *

Critias Critias (; grc-gre, Κριτίας, ''Kritias''; c. 460 – 403 BC) was an ancient Athenian political figure and author. Born in Athens, Critias was the son of Callaeschrus and a first cousin of Plato's mother Perictione. He became a leading ...

– one of the Thirty Tyrants *

Critius Kritios ((; ( grc, Κριτίος) was an Athenian sculptor, probably a pupil of Antenor, working in the early 5th century BCE, whose manner is on the cusp of the Late Archaic and the Severe style of Early Classicism in Attica. He was the teacher ...

– sculptor *

Crito ''Crito'' ( or ; grc, Κρίτων ) is a dialogue that was written by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. It depicts a conversation between Socrates and his wealthy friend Crito of Alopece regarding justice (''δικαιοσύνη''), inj ...

– several *

Critolaus Critolaus (; el, Κριτόλαος ''Kritolaos''; c. 200 – c. 118 BC) of Phaselis was a Greek philosopher of the Peripatetic school. He was one of three philosophers sent to Rome in 155 BC (the other two being Carneades and Diogenes of Babylon) ...

– general *

Croesus Croesus ( ; Lydian: ; Phrygian: ; grc, Κροισος, Kroisos; Latin: ; reigned: c. 585 – c. 546 BC) was the king of Lydia, who reigned from 585 BC until his defeat by the Persian king Cyrus the Great in 547 or 546 BC. Croesus was ...

– king of Lydia *

Ctesias Ctesias (; grc-gre, Κτησίας; fl. fifth century BC), also known as Ctesias of Cnidus, was a Greek physician and historian from the town of Cnidus in Caria, then part of the Achaemenid Empire. Historical events Ctesias, who lived in the fi ...

– physician and historian *

Ctesibius Ctesibius or Ktesibios or Tesibius ( grc-gre, Κτησίβιος; fl. 285–222 BC) was a Greek inventor and mathematician in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt. He wrote the first treatises on the science of compressed air and its uses in pumps (a ...

– scientist * Cylon – attempted usurper in Athens *

Cynaethus Cynaethus or Cinaethus ( el, Κύναιθος or Κίναιθος) of Chios was a rhapsode, a member of the Homeridae, sometimes said to have composed the ''Homeric Hymn to Apollo''. The main source of information on Cynaethus is a Scholium to Pind ...

– writer *

Cynegeirus Cynegirus or Cynaegirus ( grc, Κυνέγειρος ''Kunégeiros'' or ''Kunaígeiros''; died 490 BC) was an ancient Greek general of Athens and had three siblings. His two brothers were the playwright Aeschylus and Ameinias, hero of the battle ...

– heroic soldier *

Cynisca Cynisca or Kyniska ( el, Κυνίσκα; born c. 442 BC) was a wealthy Spartan princess. She is famous for being the first woman to win at the Olympic Games, competing in the sport of chariot racing. Cynisca first entered the Olympics in 396 BC, ...

– female Spartan athlete *

Cypselus Cypselus ( grc-gre, Κύψελος, ''Kypselos'') was the first tyrant of Corinth in the 7th century BC. With increased wealth and more complicated trade relations and social structures, Greek city-states tended to overthrow their traditional her ...

– tyrant of Corinth

D

Daimachus Deimachus or Daimachus (; grc, Δηΐμαχος or Δαΐμαχος) was a Greek from Plataeae, who lived during the third-century BCE. He became an ambassador to the court of the Mauryan ruler Bindusara "Amitragatha" (son of Chandragupta Maur ...

– two writers *

Daman Daman may refer to: place Places *Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, a union territory in India **Daman and Diu, former union territory of India, now part of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu **Daman district, India ***Daman, India ...

– philosopher *

Damascius Damascius (; grc-gre, Δαμάσκιος, 458 – after 538), known as "the last of the Athenian Neoplatonists," was the last scholarch of the neoplatonic Athenian school. He was one of the neoplatonic philosophers who left Athens after laws ...

– philosopher * Damastes – writer * Damasias – archon of Athens *

Damocles Damocles is a character who appears in an (likely apocryphal) anecdote commonly referred to as "the sword of Damocles", an allusion to the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power. Damocles was a courtier in the cou ...

– courtier of sword fame *

Damon of Athens Damon ( grc-gre, Δάμων, ''gen''.: Δάμωνος), son of Damonides, was a Greek musicologist of the fifth century BC. He belonged to the Athenian deme of Oē (sometimes spelled "Oa"). He is credited as teacher and advisor of Pericles. Music ...

– writer on music * Damon of Syracus – philosopher * Damophilus – painter *

Damophon Damophon ( grc-gre, Δαμοφῶν; fl. 2nd century BC) was an Ancient Greece, ancient Greek sculpture, sculptor of the Hellenistic period from Messene, who executed many statues for the people of Messene, Megalopolis, Greece, Megalopolis, Aigio, A ...

– sculptor * Damoxenus – New Comedy playwright *

Dares of Phrygia Dares Phrygius ( grc, Δάρης), according to Homer, was a Trojan priest of Hephaestus. He was supposed to have been the author of an account of the destruction of Troy, and to have lived before Homer. A work in Latin, purporting to be a transla ...

– writer * Deinocrates (also spelled Dinocrates) – architect *

Deidamia of Scyros In Greek mythology, Deidamia (; Ancient Greek: Δηϊδάμεια ''Deïdameia'') was a princess of Scyros as a daughter of King Lycomedes. Mythology Deidamia was one of King Lycomedes's seven daughters with whom Achilles was concealed. Some v ...

– princess *

Deidamia I of Epirus Deidamia (in Greek Δηιδάμεια; died 300 BC) was a Princess of Epirus. Family Deidamia was a daughter of Aeacides, king of Epirus and his wife, Queen Phthia, and sister of King Pyrrhus. While yet a girl she was betrothed by her father ...

– princess *

Deidamia II of Epirus Deidamia may refer to: * ''see Deidamia (Greek myth)'' * Deidamia of Scyros, in Greek mythology, a lover of Achilles * Hippodamia (wife of Pirithous), also known as Deidamia, abducted by the Centaurs in Greek mythology * Deidamia I of Epirus, wife ...

– princess *

Deinias Deinias ( grc, Δεινίας) was an ancient Greek writer of the 4th century BC, and is possibly the person mentioned by Demosthenes Demosthenes (; el, Δημοσθένης, translit=Dēmosthénēs; ; 384 – 12 October 322 BC) was a Gr ...

– writer of the 4th century BC *

Deiphontes Deiphontes (; grc, Δηϊφόντης) was king of Argos. He was a son of Antimachus, and husband of Hyrnetho, the daughter of Temenus the Heracleide, by whom he became the father of Antimenes, Xanthippus, Argeius, and Orsobia. Deiphontes was desc ...

– king of

Argos Argos most often refers to: * Argos, Peloponnese, a city in Argolis, Greece ** Ancient Argos, the ancient city * Argos (retailer), a catalogue retailer operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland Argos or ARGOS may also refer to: Businesses * ...

Demades Demades ( el, Δημάδης, BC) was an Athenian orator and demagogue. Background and early life Demades was born into a poor family of ancient Paeania and was employed at one time as a common sailor, but he rose to a prominent position at Athen ...

– orator *

Demaratus Demaratus ( el, Δημάρατος ; Doric: ) was a king of Sparta from around 515 BC to 491 BC. The 15th of the Eurypontid line, he was the first son born to his father, King Ariston. As king, Demaratus is known chiefly for his opposition t ...

– King of Sparta *

Demetrius Demetrius is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek male given name ''Dēmḗtrios'' (), meaning “Demetris” - "devoted to goddess Demeter". Alternate forms include Demetrios, Dimitrios, Dimitris, Dmytro, Dimitri, Dimitrie, Dimitar, Dumit ...

– epistolographer *

– comic playwright * Demetrius (son of Pythonax) – companion of Alexander the Great *

– rhetorical stylist *

– Indo-Greek king *

Demetrius I of Bactria Demetrius I Anicetus ( grc, Δημήτριος Ἀνίκητος, Dēmētrios Anikētos, "the unconquered"), also called Damaytra was a Greco-Bactrian and later Indo-Greek king (Yona in Pali language, "Yavana" in Sanskrit) (reigned c. 200–167 B ...

– Greek king of Bactria *

Demetrius I of Syria Demetrius I (Greek: ''Δημήτριος Α`'', 185 – June 150 BC), surnamed Soter (Greek: ''Σωτήρ'' - "Savior"), reigned as king ( basileus) of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire from November 162 – June 150 BC. Demetrius grew up in Rome ...

– Seleucid king of Syria *

Demetrius I Poliorcetes Demetrius I (; grc, Δημήτριος; 337–283 BC), also called Poliorcetes (; el, Πολιορκητής, "The Besieger"), was a Ancient Macedonians, Macedonian nobleman, military leader, and king of Macedon (294–288 BC). He belonged to t ...

– King of Macedon * Demetrius II – Indo-Greek king *

Demetrius II of Macedon Demetrius II Aetolicus (Greek: Δημήτριος ὁ Αἰτωλικός) was the son of Antigonus II Gonatas and Phila who reigned as king of Macedonia from the winter of 239 to 229 BC. Biography Demetrius II belonged to the Antigonid dynast ...

– King of Macedon *

Demetrius II of Syria Demetrius II ( grc, Δημήτριος Β`, ''Dēmḗtrios B''; died 125 BC), called Nicator ( grc, Νικάτωρ, ''Nikátōr'', "Victor"), was one of the sons of Demetrius I Soter. His mother may have been Laodice V, as was the case with his ...

– Seleucid king of Syria *

Demetrius III Eucaerus Demetrius III Theos Philopator Soter Philometor Euergetes Callinicus ( grc, Δημήτριος θεός Φιλοπάτωρ σωτήρ Φιλομήτωρ Εὐεργέτης Καλλίνικος, surnamed Eucaerus; between 124 and 109 BCafter 8 ...

– Seleucid king of Syria * Demetrius Ixion – grammarian *

Demetrius Lacon Demetrius Lacon or Demetrius of Laconia ( el, Δημήτριος; fl. late 2nd century BC) was an Epicurean philosopher, and a disciple of Protarchus. He was an older contemporary of Zeno of Sidon and a teacher of Philodemus. Sextus Empiricus quote ...

– Epicurean philosopher *

Demetrius of Alopece Demetrius of AlopeceAlopece (Ἀλωπεκή) was a deme of Classical Athens. ( el, Δημήτριος), was a Greek sculptor of the early part of the 4th century BC, who is said by ancient critics to have been notable for the lifelike realism of hi ...

– sculptor *

Demetrius of Magnesia Demetrius of Magnesia ( grc-gre, Δημήτριος; 1st century BC) was a Greek grammarian and biographer, and a contemporary of Cicero and Atticus. He had, in Cicero's recollection, sent Atticus a work of his on concord, ( el, Περὶ ὁμο� ...

– writer *

Demetrius of Pharos Demetrius of Pharos (also Pharus) ( grc, Δημήτριος ἐκ Φάρου and Δημήτριος ὁ Φάριος) was a ruler of Pharos involved in the First Illyrian War, after which he ruled a portion of the Illyrian Adriatic coast on beha ...

– ruler in Illyria *

Demetrius of Scepsis Demetrius of Scepsis ( grc, Δημήτριος ὁ Σκήψιος) was a Greek grammarian of the time of Aristarchus and Crates ( Strab. xiii. p. 609), the first half of the second century BC. He is sometimes simply called the Scepsian (Stra ...

– grammarian and archaeologist *

Demetrius of Tarsus Demetrius is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek male given name ''Dēmḗtrios'' (), meaning “Demetris” - "devoted to goddess Demeter". Alternate forms include Demetrios, Dimitrios, Dimitris, Dmytro, Dimitri, Dimitrie, Dimitar, Dumit ...

– grammarian *

Demetrius of Troezen Demetrius is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek male given name ''Dēmḗtrios'' (), meaning “Demetris” - "devoted to goddess Demeter". Alternate forms include Demetrios, Dimitrios, Dimitris, Dmytro, Dimitri, Dimitrie, Dimitar, Dumit ...

– literary historian *

Demetrius Phalereus Demetrius of Phalerum (also Demetrius of Phaleron or Demetrius Phalereus; grc-gre, Δημήτριος ὁ Φαληρεύς; c. 350 – c. 280 BC) was an Athenian orator originally from Phalerum, an ancient port of Athens. A student of Theophrast ...

– philosopher and statesman *

Demetrius the Cynic Demetrius ( el, Δημήτριος; fl. 1st century), a Cynic philosopher from Corinth, who lived in Rome during the reigns of Caligula, Nero and Vespasian (37–71 AD). Biography Demetrius was the intimate friend of Seneca, who wrote about him o ...

– philosopher *

Demetrius the Fair Demetrius I the Fair or the Handsome ( gr, Δημήτριος ὁ Καλός, c. 285 BC–249 BC), known in modern ancient historical sources as Demetrius of Cyrene, was a Hellenistic king of Cyrene, who succeeded Magas I. Family Dem ...

– son of Demetrius I Poliorcetes *

Democedes Democedes of Croton (; el, Δημοκήδης), described in ''The Histories of Herodotus'' as "the most skillful physician of his time". Democedes's background Democedes was a Greek physician and a member of the court of Darius I. He was born i ...

– physician *

Democritus Democritus (; el, Δημόκριτος, ''Dēmókritos'', meaning "chosen of the people"; – ) was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Abdera, primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe. No ...

– philosopher *

Demon A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity. Historically, belief in demons, or stories about demons, occurs in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology, and folklore; as well as in media such as comics, video games, movies, ani ...

– writer *

Demonax Demonax ( el, Δημώναξ, ''Dēmōnax'', ''gen''.: Δημώνακτος; c. AD 70 – c. 170) was a Greek Cynic philosopher. Born in Cyprus, he moved to Athens, where his wisdom, and his skill in solving disputes, earned him the admiration of ...

– philosopher *

Demonax (lawmaker) Demonax ( el, Δημώναξ, ''Dēmōnax'', ''gen''.: Δημώνακτος) was an ancient Greek lawmaker of the style of Solon and Lycurgus, known for reforming the constitution of the Cyrenaeans. Life Besides what is mentioned in the '' Histor ...

– Arcadian lawmaker * Demophanes – philosopher active in public life *

Demophon (seer) Demophon was a seer in Alexander Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Vari ...

Demosthenes (general) Demosthenes ( el, Δημοσθένης, died 413 BC), son of Alcisthenes, was an Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War. Early military actions The military activities of Demosthenes are first recorded from 426 BC when he led an Athenian i ...

– Athenian general *

Demosthenes Demosthenes (; el, Δημοσθένης, translit=Dēmosthénēs; ; 384 – 12 October 322 BC) was a Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prow ...

– Athenian orator *

Demosthenes of Bithynia Demosthenes (; el, Δημοσθένης, translit=Dēmosthénēs; ; 384 – 12 October 322 BC) was a Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowe ...

– poet *

Dercyllidas Dercylidas (Greek: Δερκυλίδας) was a Spartan commander during the 5th and 4th century BC. For his cunning and inventiveness, he was nicknamed Sisyphus. In 411 BC he was appointed harmost at Abydos. In 399 BC, he was advised by Antisthe ...

– Spartan commander *

Dexippus Publius Herennius Dexippus ( el, Δέξιππος; c. 210–273 AD), Greek historian, statesman and general, was an hereditary priest of the Eleusinian family of the Kerykes, and held the offices of ''archon basileus'' and ''eponymous'' in Athen ...

– historian * Diagoras – poet *

Diagoras of Rhodes Diagoras of Rhodes (; el, Διαγόρας ὁ Ῥόδιος) was an Ancient Greek boxer from the 5th century BC, who was celebrated for his own victories, as well as the victories of his sons and grandsons. He was a member of the Eratidea fa ...

(winner of boxing, 79th Olympiad, 464 BC) *

Dicaearchus Dicaearchus of Messana (; grc-gre, Δικαίαρχος ''Dikaiarkhos''; ), also written Dikaiarchos (), was a Greek philosopher, geographer and author. Dicaearchus was a student of Aristotle in the Lyceum. Very little of his work remains extan ...

– geographer * Dicaeogenes – tragic poet *

Dictys Cretensis Dictys Cretensis, i.e. Dictys of Crete (, ; grc, Δίκτυς ὁ Κρής) of Knossos was a legendary companion of Idomeneus during the Trojan War, and the purported author of a diary of its events, that deployed some of the same materials worke ...

– writer *

Didymarchus *Didymarchus (Greek: ) is mentioned by Antoninus Liberalis (23) as the author of a work on Metamorphoses, of which the third book is there quoted. *Didymarchos son of Apollonios was a Macedonian of the fifth hipparchy in Kerkeosiris, a village in H ...

– writer *

Didymus Chalcenterus Didymus Chalcenterus (Latin; Greek: , ''Dídymos Chalkéderos'', "Didymus Bronze-Guts"; c. 63 BC – c. AD 10), was an Ancient Greek scholar and grammarian who flourished in the time of Cicero and Augustus. Life The epithet "Bronze-Guts" came f ...

– grammarian *

Didymus the Blind Didymus the Blind (alternatively spelled Dedimus or Didymous) (c. 313398) was a Christian theologian in the Church of Alexandria, where he taught for about half a century. He was a student of Origen, and, after the Second Council of Constantinopl ...

– theologian *

Didymus the Musician Didymus the Musician (Greek: Δίδυμος) was a music theorist in Rome of the end of the 1st century BC or beginning of the 1st century AD, who combined elements of earlier theoretical approaches with an appreciation of the aspect of performance. ...

– music theorist *

Dienekes Dienekes or Dieneces ( el, Διηνέκης, from διηνεκής, Doric Greek: διανεκής "continuous, unbroken") was a Spartan soldier who fought and died at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. He was acclaimed the bravest of all the G ...

– Spartan officer *

Dinarchus Dinarchus or Dinarch ( el, Δείναρχος; Corinth, c. 361 – c. 291 BC) was a logographer (speechwriter) in Ancient Greece. He was the last of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzanti ...

– orator *

Dinocrates Dinocrates of Rhodes (also Deinocrates, Dimocrates, Cheirocrates and Stasicrates; grc-gre, Δεινοκράτης ὁ Ῥόδιος, fl. last quarter of the 4th century BC) was a Greek architect and technical adviser for Alexander the Great. He i ...

(also spelled Deinocrates) – architect *

Dinon Dinon or Deinon (Greek or ) of Colophon (c. 360–340 BC) was a Greek historian and chronicler, the author of a history of Persia, many fragments of which survive. The Suda mistakenly attributes this work to Dio Cassius. He is the father of Cleit ...

– historian * Dio Cocceianus – orator and philosopher * Diocles – four; politician, poet, mathematician, rhetor *

Diocles of Carystus Diocles of Carystus (; el, Διοκλῆς ὁ Καρύστιος; la, Diocles Carystius; also known by the Latin name Diocles Medicus, i.e. "Diocles the physician"; c. 375 BC – c. 295 BC) was a well-regarded Greek physician, born in Carystus, a ...

– physician *

Diocles of Magnesia Diocles of Magnesia ( el, Διοκλῆς ὁ Μάγνης) was an ancient Greek writer from Magnesia ad Sipylum, who probably lived in the 2nd or 1st century BC. The claim that he is the Diocles to whom Meleager of Gadara dedicated his anthology i ...

– philosopher *

Diodorus of Alexandria Diodorus of Alexandria or Diodorus Alexandrinus was a gnomonicist, astronomer and a pupil of Posidonius. Writings He wrote the first discourse on the principles of the sundial, known as ''Analemma''. a commentary on this having later been wri ...

– mathematician and astronomer *

Diodorus of Sinope Diodorus Siculus, or Diodorus of Sicily ( grc-gre, Διόδωρος ; 1st century BC), was an ancient Greek historian. He is known for writing the monumental universal history ''Bibliotheca historica'', in forty books, fifteen of which su ...

– New Comedy playwright *

Diodorus Cronus Diodorus Cronus ( el, Διόδωρος Κρόνος; died c. 284 BC) was a Greek philosopher and dialectician connected to the Megarian school. He was most notable for logic innovations, including his master argument formulated in response to Ari ...

– philosopher *

Diodorus Siculus Diodorus Siculus, or Diodorus of Sicily ( grc-gre, Διόδωρος ; 1st century BC), was an ancient Greek historian. He is known for writing the monumental universal history ''Bibliotheca historica'', in forty books, fifteen of which su ...

– historian *

Diodotus the Stoic Diodotus ( el, Διόδοτος; fl. 1st century BC) was a Stoic philosopher, and was a friend of Cicero. Biography Diodotus lived for most of his life in Rome in Cicero's house, where he instructed Cicero in Stoic philosophy and especially Logic. ...

– Cicero's teacher *

Diodotus of Bactria Diodotus I Soter (Greek: , ''Diódotos Sōtḗr''; c. 315-300 BC – c. 235 BC), was the first Hellenistic King of Bactria. Diodotus became independent of the Seleucid empire around 255 or 245 BC, and established the Diodotid Bactrian Kingdom, w ...

– Seleucid king of Bactria *

Diodotus II Diodotus II Theos (Greek: , ''Diódotos Theós''; died c. 225 BC) was the son and successor of Diodotus I Soter, who rebelled against the Seleucid empire, establishing the Graeco-Bactrian Kingdom. Diodotus II probably ruled alongside his father ...

– Greco-Bactrian king *

Diodotus Tryphon Diodotus Tryphon ( el, Διόδοτος Τρύφων), nicknamed "The Magnificent" ( el, Ό Μεγαλοπρεπής) was a Greek king of the Seleucid Empire. Initially an official under King Alexander I Balas, he led a revolt against Alexander's ...

– Seleucid king of Syria *Dioetas (Διοίτας) – Achaean general *

Diogenes Apolloniates Diogenes of Apollonia ( ; grc, Διογένης ὁ Ἀπολλωνιάτης, Diogénēs ho Apollōniátēs; 5th century BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, and was a native of the Milesian colony Apollonia in Thrace. He lived for some ti ...

– philosopher *

Diogenes Laërtius Diogenes Laërtius ( ; grc-gre, Διογένης Λαέρτιος, ; ) was a biographer of the Ancient Greece, Greek philosophers. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' is a ...

– biographer *

Diogenes of Babylon Diogenes of Babylon (also known as Diogenes of Seleucia; grc-gre, Διογένης Βαβυλώνιος; la, Diogenes Babylonius; c. 230 – c. 150/140 BC) was a Stoic philosopher. He was the head of the Stoic school in Athens, and he was one of ...

– philosopher *

Diogenes of Oenoanda Diogenes of Oenoanda ( grc-gre, Διογένης ὁ Οἰνοανδεύς) was an Epicurean Greek from the 2nd century AD who carved a summary of the philosophy of Epicurus onto a portico wall in the ancient Greek city of Oenoanda in Lycia (modern ...

– Epicurean *

Diogenes of Sinope Diogenes ( ; grc, Διογένης, Diogénēs ), also known as Diogenes the Cynic (, ) or Diogenes of Sinope, was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynicism (philosophy). He was born in Sinope, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea ...

– Cynic philosopher *

Diogenes of Tarsus Diogenes of Tarsus ( grc-gre, Διογένης ὁ Ταρσεύς; fl. 2nd century BC) was an Epicurean philosopher, who is described by Strabo as a person clever in composing improvised tragedies. He was the author of several works, which, howev ...

– Epicurean *

Diogenianus Diogenianus ( el, Διογενειανός, Διογενιανός) was a Greek grammarian from Heraclea in Pontus (or in Caria) who flourished during the reign of Hadrian. He was the author of an alphabetical lexicon, chiefly of poetical words, a ...

– two; Epicurean, grammarian *

Diomedes Diomedes (Jones, Daniel; Roach, Peter, James Hartman and Jane Setter, eds. ''Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary''. 17th edition. Cambridge UP, 2006.) or Diomede (; grc-gre, Διομήδης, Diomēdēs, "god-like cunning" or "advised by ...

– grammarian * Dion – tyrant of Syracuse *

Dionysius Aelius The name Dionysius (; el, Διονύσιος ''Dionysios'', "of Dionysus"; la, Dionysius) was common in classical and post-classical times. Etymologically it is a nominalized adjective formed with a -ios suffix from the stem Dionys- of the name ...

– lexicographer *

Dionysius the Areopagite Dionysius the Areopagite (; grc-gre, Διονύσιος ὁ Ἀρεοπαγίτης ''Dionysios ho Areopagitēs'') was an Athenian judge at the Areopagus Court in Athens, who lived in the first century. A convert to Christianity, he is venerate ...

– Athenian convert *

Dionysius of Byzantium Dionysius of Byzantium (Greek ∆ιονύσιος Βυζάντιος, Dionysios Byzantios Latin Dionysius Byzantinus) was a Greek geographer of the 2nd century CE. He is known for his Ανάπλους Βοσπόρου ''Anaplous Bosporou'' ''Voyage ...

– writer *

Dionysius Chalcus Dionysius Chalcus ( el, Διονύσιος ὁ Χαλκοῦς) was an ancient Athenian poet and orator. According to Athenaeus, he was called Chalcus ("brazen") because he advised the Athenians to adopt a brass coinage (xv. p. 669). His spee ...

– poet *

Dionysius of Halicarnassus Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( grc, Διονύσιος Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἁλικαρνασσεύς, ; – after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Emperor Augustus. His literary sty ...

– historian *

Dionysius of Heraclea Dionysius (, ''Dionysios'') was a tyrant of Heraclea Pontica on the Euxine (the Black Sea). He was a son of Clearchus of Heraclea, Clearchus, who had assumed the tyranny in his place of birth. When Clearchus died (353/352 BC), he was first succee ...

– writer *

Dionysius Periegetes Dionysius Periegetes ( grc-gre, Διονύσιος ὁ Περιηγητής, literally Dionysius the Voyager or Traveller, often Latinized to ''Dionysius Periegeta''), also known as Dionysius of Alexandria or Dionysius the African,''Encyclopædia ...

– geographic writer *

Dionysius of Philadelphia The name Dionysius (; el, Διονύσιος ''Dionysios'', "of Dionysus"; la, Dionysius) was common in classical and post-classical times. Etymologically it is a nominalized adjective formed with a -ios suffix from the stem Dionys- of the name ...

– writer *

Dionysius of Phocaea Dionysius the Phocaean or Dionysius of Phocaea ( el, Διονύσιος) ( fl. 494 BC) was a Phocaean admiral of ancient Greece during the Persian Wars of 5th century BC, and was the commander of the Ionian fleet at the Battle of Lade in 494 BC. A ...

– Ionian general *

Dionysius of Samos The name Dionysius (; el, Διονύσιος ''Dionysios'', "of Dionysus"; la, Dionysius) was common in classical and post-classical times. Etymologically it is a nominalized adjective formed with a -ios suffix from the stem Dionys- of the name ...

– writer *

Dionysius Scytobrachion Dionysius Scytobrachion ( grc, Διονύσιος ὁ Σκυτοβραχίων) (Scytobrachion meaning 'leather arm'), also known as Dionysius of Mytilene (the capital of Lesbos), was the author of a series of stories set in the region now known a ...

– grammarian *

Dionysius of Sinope The name Dionysius (; el, Διονύσιος ''Dionysios'', "of Dionysus"; la, Dionysius) was common in classical and post-classical times. Etymologically it is a nominalized adjective formed with a -ios suffix from the stem Dionys- of the name ...

– Middle Comedy playwright * Dionysius of Syracuse – tyrant of Syracuse * Dionysius II – tyrant of Syracuse * Dionysius of Thebes – poet *

Dionysius Trax The name Dionysius (; el, Διονύσιος ''Dionysios'', "of Dionysus"; la, Dionysius) was common in classical and post-classical times. Etymologically it is a nominalized adjective formed with a -ios suffix from the stem Dionys- of the name ...

or Thrax – grammarian * Dionysius son of Calliphron – poet *

Dionysodorus Dionysodorus of Caunus ( grc-gre, Διονυσόδωρος ὁ Καύνειος, c. 250 BC – c. 190 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician. Life and work Little is known about the life of Dionysodorus. Pliny the Elder writes about a Dionysodo ...

– sophist *

Diophantus Diophantus of Alexandria ( grc, Διόφαντος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; born probably sometime between AD 200 and 214; died around the age of 84, probably sometime between AD 284 and 298) was an Alexandrian mathematician, who was the aut ...

– mathematician *

Dios Dios may refer to: * ''Dios'', Spanish for God * ''Dios'', a character in the anime/manga series Revolutionary Girl Utena * Desorption ionization on silicon, an ionization technique in mass spectrometry * dios (malos), a rock band from Hawthorne, ...

– historian *

Dioscorides Pedanius Dioscorides ( grc-gre, Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης, ; 40–90 AD), “the father of pharmacognosy”, was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of ''De materia medica'' (, On Medical Material) —a 5-vol ...

– Stoic philosopher * Dioscorides Pedanius – physician * Diotima – female philosopher *

Diotimus Diotimus ( el, Διότιμος) was a Stoic philosopher, who lived c. 100 BC. He is said to have accused Epicurus of being depraved, and to have forged fifty letters, professing to have been written by Epicurus, to prove it. According to Athenaeu ...

– two; poet, Athenian general *

Diotogenes Diotogenes ( grc, Διοτογένης) was a Neopythagoreanism, Neopythagorean philosopher. He wrote a work ''On Piety'', of which three fragments are preserved in Stobaeus, and another ''On Kingship'', of which two considerable fragments are ...

– Pythagorean writer *

Diphilus Diphilus (Greek: Δίφιλος), of Sinope, was a poet of the new Attic comedy and a contemporary of Menander (342–291 BC). He is frequently listed together with Menander and Philemon, considered the three greatest poets of New Comedy. He was ...

– comic playwright *

Dorieus Dorieus (died c.510 BC; grc-gre, Δωριεύς) was a Spartan prince of the Agiad dynasty who is mentioned several times in Herodotus. The second son of Anaxandridas II, he was the younger half-brother of Cleomenes I and the elder full brother of ...

– Spartan prince * Dorissus – King of Sparta *

Dorotheus of Sidon Dorotheus of Sidon ( grc-gre, Δωρόθεος Σιδώνιος, c. 75 CE - ?? CE) was a 1st-century Greek astrologer and astrological poet, who, during the Hellenistic Period, wrote a didactic poem on horoscopic astrology in Greek, known as the ' ...

– astrological poet * Dorotheus – 6th-century jurist * Dorotheus of Ascalon - writer * Dosiadas – poet * Dositheus – two; astronomer, grammarian *

Draco Draco is the Latin word for serpent or dragon. Draco or Drako may also refer to: People * Draco (lawgiver) (from Greek: Δράκων; 7th century BC), the first lawgiver of ancient Athens, Greece, from whom the term ''draconian'' is derived * D ...

– Athenian lawmaker *

Dracon Draco (; grc-gre, Δράκων, ''Drakōn''; fl. c. 7th century BC), also called Drako or Drakon, was the first recorded legislator of Athens in Ancient Greece. He replaced the prevailing system of oral law and blood feud by the Draconian co ...

– writer *Dropidas (Δρωπίδας) – father of

Cleitus the Black Cleitus the Black ( grc-gre, Κλεῖτος ὁ μέλας; c. 375 BC – 328 BC), was an officer of the Macedonian army led by Alexander the Great. He saved Alexander's life at the Battle of the Granicus in 334 BC and was killed by him in a drunk ...

* Duris – Athenian potter and vase painter * Duris – historian, tyrant of Samos

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Echecrates In ancient Greece, Echecrates ( el, Ἐχεκράτης) was the name of the following men: *Echecrates of Thessaly, a military officer of Ptolemy IV Philopator, documented around 219–217 BC. *A son of Demetrius the Fair (c. 285–250 BC) by Olymp ...

– philosopher *Echestratus – King of Sparta *Ecphantides – comic playwright *Ecphantus – philosopher *Eirenaeus – grammarian *Eirene (artist), Eirene – Woman artist *Elpinice – Athenian noblewoman and daughter of Miltiades, known for confronting Pericles twice. *Empedocles – philosopher *Entimus (Ἔντιμος) – one of the founders of the city of

Diodorus Siculus, Library 8-40, 8.23.1
/ref> *Entochus – sculptor *Epaminondas – Theban general *Epaphroditus of Chaeronea – scholar *Ephialtes – Athenian statesman *Ephialtes of Trachis – traitor *Ephippus of Athens, Ephippus – Middle Comedy playwright *Ephippus of Olynthus, Ephippus – pamphleteer *Ephorus – historian *Epicharmus of Kos – writer *Epicles – name of several different individuals *Epicrates of Ambracia, Epicrates – Middle Comedy playwright *Epictetus – philosopher *Epiktetos, Epictetus – Athenian potter and vasepainter *Epicurus – philosopher *Epigenes (disambiguation), Epigenes – two playwrights *Epigenes, son of Antiphon, disciple of Socrates *Epigenes of Sicyon, tragic poet *Epilycus – writer *Epimenides – seer *Epinicus – comic poet *Epiphanius of Salamis – theologian *Epitadas – Spartan general *Epitadeus – Spartan statesman *Erasistratus – physician *Eratosthenes – geographer *Erinna – poet *Eriphus – Middle Comedy poet *Erucius of Cyzicus – writer *Eryximachus – physician *Eryxo – Queen of Cyrenaica *Euangelus – New Comedy poet *Euanthius – writer *Eubulides of Miletus – philosopher *Eubulus (statesman) – Athenian statesman *Eubulus (playwright) – Middle Comedy playwright *Eucleidas – King of Sparta *Eucleides – two; philosopher, archon *Euclid – mathematician *Eucratides – Greco-Bactrian king *Euctemon – astronomer *Eudamidas I – King of Sparta *Eudamidas II – King of Sparta *Eudamidas III – King of Sparta *Eudemus of Cyprus – philosopher *Eudemus of Rhodes – philosopher *Eudorus of Alexandria – philosopher *Eudoxus of Cnidus – mathematician *Eudoxus of Cyzicus – explorer *Eudoxus of Rhodes – historian *Euenus – poet *Euetes – writer *Eugammon – epic poet *Euhemerus – mythographer *Eumelus (poet) – Corinthian poet *Eumenes I – Attalid king of Pergamum *Eumenes II – Attalid king of Pergamum *Eumenes of Cardia – secretary *Eumenius – rhetoric teacher *Eumolpidae – one of the families who ran the Eleusinian mysteries *Eunapius – sophist *Eunomus (king of Sparta), Eunomus – King of Sparta *Euphantus – writer and teacher *Euphemus – Athenian general *Euphorion of Chalcis, Euphorion – philosopher *Euphorion son of Aeschylus – playwright *Euphranor – sculptor and painter *Euphron – New Comedy playwright *Euphronius – potter and vasepainter *Eupolis – Old Comedy playwright *Eurybatus (general), Eurybatus – Corcyrean general *Eurybiades – Spartan general *Eurycrates – King of Sparta *Eurycratides – King of Sparta *Eurydice of Egypt – Ptolemaic queen of Egypt, wife of Ptolemy I Soter *Eurydice of Athens – A descendant of Miltiades and a wife of Demetrius I of Macedon *Eurydice (wife of Antipater II of Macedon) – Princess and wife of

*Eurylochus (Spartan general), Eurylochus – Spartan general *Eurymedon (strategos), Eurymedon – Athenian general *Euripides – playwright *Eurypon – King of Sparta *Eurysthenes – King of Sparta *Eusebius of Caesarea – Christian historian *Euthydemus (Socratic literature), Euthydemus – sophist *Euthydemus I – Seleucid king of Bactria *Euthydemus II – Indo-Greek king *Euthymides – vasepainter *Eutychides – sculptor and painter *Euthyphro (prophet), Euthyphro – prophet *Euxenides – playwright *Evagoras I, Evagoras of Salamis – rebel *Exekias – potter and vasepainter

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*Favorinus – philosopher

G

*Galen – physician *Gastron (Γάστρων) – Spartan commander *Gelo – tyrant of Syracuse *Saint George, George – Soldier of the Roman army, Roman Army and Saint, Christian Saint *Glaphyra (hetaera), Glaphya –

*Glaucus of Chios – inventor of iron welding *Glaucus of Rhegium – writer *Glycon (poet), Glycon – poet *Glycon of Athens – sculptor *Gnathaena – courtesan *Gorgias – two orators *Gorgidas – Theban military leader *Gregory of Nyssa – Christian saint *Gryton – Boeotian potter *Gylippus – Spartan general

H

*Habron – grammarian *Hagnodorus – Athenian political figure *Hagnon, son of Nikias, Hagnon – Athenian colonizer *Hagnon of Tarsus – rhetorician and philosopher *Hagnothemis – alleged that

had been poisoned *Harmodius and Aristogeiton – assassins *Harpalus – friend of Alexander the Great *Harpalus (son of Polemaeus) – Macedonian statesman *Hecataeus of Abdera – historian of Egypt *Hecataeus of Miletus – historian *Hecatomnus – ruler in Asia *Hecato of Rhodes – Stoic philosopher *Hedylus – epigrammatist *Hegemon of Thasos – parodist *Hegesander (historian), Hegesander – writer *Hegesias of Cyrene – philosopher *Hegesias of Magnesia – historian *Hegesippus (orator), Hegesippus – Athenian statesman *Hegesippus (poet) – New Comedy poet *Hegesippus (epigrammatist) – epigrammatist *Hegesipyle – mother of Cimon *Hegesistratus – son of Pisistratus *Hegetorides – a Thasian during the Peloponnesian War *Heliocles – Greco-Bactrian king *Heliodorus of Athens – author *Heliodorus (metrist) *Heliodorus (surgeon) *Heliodurus – ambassador *Hellanicus of Lesbos – logographer (history), logographer *Hephaestion – Companion of Alexander the Great *Hephaistio of Thebes – astrologer *Heracleides (Syracuse), Heracleides – tyrant of Syracuse *Heraclides Ponticus – philosopher *Heraclitus – philosopher *King Hermaeus, Hermaeus – Indo-Greek king *Hermagoras of Temnos, Hermagoras – rhetorician *Hermesianax (poet), Hermesianax – poet *Hermias (philosopher) *Hermias of Atarneus, tyrant, pupil of Plato *Hermippus – comic playwright *Hermocrates – Syracusan general *Hero of Alexandria – scientist *Aelius Herodianus – grammarian *Herodotus – historian *Herophilus – physician *Herostratus – arsonist *Hesiod – poet *Hesychius of Alexandria – grammarian *Hicetas – philosopher *Hiero I of Syracuse – tyrant of Syracuse *Hiero II of Syracuse – tyrant of Syracuse *Hierocles of Alexandria – philosopher *Hierophon – Athenian general *Hippalus – explorer *Hipparchus (brother of Hippias) – tyrant of Athens *Hipparchus – mathematician and astronomer *Hippias (tyrant) – tyrant of Athens *Hippias – philosopher *Hippocleides – archon of Athens *Hippocrates – two; physician, Athenian general *Hippodamus – architect *Hippodamas (Ἱπποδάμας) – Spartan general *Hippolus – mariner *Hipponax – poet *Hipponicus – Athenian general *Hipponoidas – Spartan general *Histiaeus – tyrant of Miletus *Homer – poet *Hypatia of Alexandria – philosopher *Hyperbolus – Athenian statesman *Hypereides – orator *Hypsicles – mathematician and astronomer *Hypsicrates – historian *Herippidas (Ηριπίδας) – Spartan general

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*Iamblichus (writer) – novelist *Iamblichus (philosopher) – Neoplatonist philosopher *Iambulus – writer *Iasus – two early kings *Ibycus – poet *Ictinus – architect *Idomeneus (writer) – writer of Lampsacus *Ion of Chios – poet *Iophon – tragedian *Iphicrates – Athenian general *Irenaeus – theologian *Isaeus – orator *Isaeus (Syrian rhetor) *Isagoras – archon of Athens *Ischolaus (Ἰσχόλαος) – Spartan general *Isidas (Ἰσίδας) – Spartan who attacked the Theban garrison at the Gytheio *Isidore of Alexandria – Neoplatonist philosopher *Isidorus of Miletus – architect *Isigonus – writer *Isocrates – rhetorician; Spartan general *Ister of Cyrene – writer *Istros the Callimachean *Isyllus – poet *Illithia – birth

J

*Jason of Pherae – Thessalian general

K

*Karanus of Macedon – King of Macedon *Karkinos – painter *Kerykes – one of the families who ran the Eleusinian mysteries *Kleoitas – architect *Coenus (king), Koinos of Macedon – King of Macedon

L

*Lacedaimonius – Athenian general *Lachares – tyrant of Athens *Laches (general), Laches – Athenian aristocrat and general *Lacritus – sophist *Lacydes – philosopher *Lais of Corinth –

*Lais of Hyccara –

*Lamachus – Athenian general *Lamprocles – Athenian musician and poet *Lamprus of Erythrae – philosopher *Lanike – mother of

*Lasus of Hermione – poet *Leochares – sculptor *Leon (king of Sparta), Leon – King of Sparta *Leonidas I – King of Sparta *Leonidas II – King of Sparta *Leonida of Alexandria – astrologer and poet *Leonnatus – Macedonian noble *Leosthenes – Athenian general *Leotychidas II – King of Sparta *Leotychides – Spartan general *Lesbonax – writer *Lesches – epic poet *Leucippus – philosopher *Leucon – Old Comedy poet *Libanius – writer *Licymnius of Chios – poet *Livius Andronicus – poet, dramaturg, colonist and slave *Lobon – literary forger *Longinus (literature), Longinus – literary critic *Longus – writer *Lucian – writer *Lyco of Troas, Lyco – philosopher *Lycophron – three; poet, son of Periander, Spartan general *Lycortas – statesman and father of Polybius *Lycurgus of Arcadia, king *Lycurgus of Athens, one of the ten notable orators at Athens, (4th century BC) *Lycurgus (of Nemea), king *Lycurgus of Sparta, creator of constitution of Sparta *Lycurgus of Thrace, king, opponent of Dionysus *Lycurgus, a.k.a. Lycomedes, in Homer *Lycus (historian), Lycus – historian *Lydiadas – Megalopolitan general *Lygdamis of Naxos – tyrant of Naxos *Lygdamus – poet *Lysander – Spartan general *Lysanias – philologist *Lysias – orator *Lysimachus – Macedonian general *Lysippus – two; poet, sculptor *Lysis – two; philosopher, actor *Lysistratus – sculptor

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*Machaon (general), Machaon – Spartan general *Machon – New Comedy poet *Magas of Macedon – Macedonian nobleman *Magas of Cyrene – King of Cyrenaica *Magas of Egypt – grandson of Magas of Cyrene *Marcellus of Side – physician and poet *Marinus of Neapolis, Marinus – philosopher *Marsyas of Pella – writer *Matris of Thebes – rhetor *Matron of Pitane – parodist *Maximus of Smyrna – anatomist and philosopher *Megacles – numerous; archon of Athens, Athenian statesman, various other Athenians *Megacleidas (Μεγακλείδας) – general *Megasthenes – traveller *Meidias – Athenian potter *Melanippides – poet *Melanthius – three; tragedian, painter, writer *Melas (sculptor), Melas – sculptor *Meleager of Gadara – poet and anthologist *Meleager of Macedon – King of Macedon *Melesagoras of Chalcedon – writer *Meletus – two; tragedian, son *Melinno – poet *Melissus of Samos – Eleatic philosopher *Memnon of Heraclea Pontica – historian *Memnon of Rhodes – military leader *Menaechmus – mathematician *Menander – playwright *Menander I (Menander I Soter, known in Indian Pali, Pāḷi sources as Milinda) – Indo-Greek king *Menander of Ephesus – writer *Menander of Laodicea – writer *Menecrates of Ephesus – poet *Menecrates of Xanthus – historian *Menedaius – Spartan general *Menedemus, Menedemus of Eretria – poet *Menedemus the Cynic, Menedemus (Cynic) – Cynic philosopher *Menelaus (sculptor) – sculptor *Menelaus of Alexandria – mathematician *Menestor – botanical writer *Menexenus – student of Socrates *Menippus – satirist *Menippus of Pergamum – writer on geography *Meno – student of Aristotle *Menodotus – writer *Menodotus of Nicomedia – medical writer *Mentor of Rhodes – military leader *Mesatos – tragedian *Metagenes – Athenian comic writer *Meton – astronomer *Metrodorus – five: **Metrodorus of Chios – philosopher **Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the elder) – philosopher **Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the younger) – philosopher **Metrodorus of Scepsis – writer **Metrodorus of Stratonicea – philosopher *Miciades – Corcyrean general *Micciades – sculptor *Micon – Athenian painter and sculptor *Milo of Croton – athlete *Miltiades the Younger – Athenian general *Miltiades the Elder – political refugee and uncle of the above *Mimnermus – poet *Mindarus – Spartan general *Mnasalces – writer *Mnasippidas (Μνασιππίδας) - general *Mnaseas – traveller *Mnesicles – architect *Mnesimachus – Middle Comedy poet *Moderatus of Gades – philosopher *Aelius Moeris, Moeris – Attic lexicographer *Moiro – poet *Morsimus – poet *Moschion (tragic poet) – tragedian *Moschion (physician) – physician *Moschus – poet *Musaeus of Athens – Athenian poet *Musaeus of Ephesus – Ephesian poet *Myia – daughter of Pythagoras *Myron – sculptor *Myronides – Athenian general *Myrsilus – historian *Myrtilus – Athenian comic poet *Myrtis of Anthedon, Myrtis – Boeotian poet *Myrtis – Athenian girl, whose remains were discovered in 1994–1995

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*Saint Nicholas – Bishop of Myra, Christian saint, main inspiration of the Santa Claus *

– Spartan usurper *Gregory Nazianzus – Bishop of Constantinople *Nearchus – Macedonian general *Neoptolemus of Parion – poet and critic *Nicander – King of Sparta *Nicarchus – poet *Nicias – Athenian statesman *Nicon (also Nikon) (Νίκων) - a pirate from Pherae *King Nicias – Indo-Greek king *Nicocreon – tyrant of Cyprus *Nicomachus – mathematician and neo-Pythagorean *Nicomachus of Thebes – painter *Nicomedes of Sparta, commanded the army of the Peleponnesian League at the Battle of Tanagra (457 BC) *Nicomedes I of Bithynia – king of Bithynia *Nicomedes II of Bithynia – king of Bithynia *Nicomedes III of Bithynia – king of Bithynia *Nicomedes IV of Bithynia – king of Bithynia

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*Olympias – mother of Alexander the Great *Olympiodorus of Thebes – historian *Onesilas of Salamis – rebel *Onomarchus – general of the Phocians *Onomacritus – forger *Orestes of Macedon – King of Macedon *Origen – theologian *Oxylus – son of Haemon

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*Paches (Πάχης) - Athenian general *Paeonius of Mende, Paeonius – sculptor *Pagondas – Spartan general *Palladas – poet *Pamphilus (grammarian), Pamphilus – grammarian *Pamphilus (painter), Pamphilus – painter *Pamphilus of Caesarea – theologian *Panaetius of Rhodes – philosopher *Pantaleon – Indo-Greek king *Parmenides – philosopher *Parmenion – Macedonian general *Parrhasius (painter), Parrhasius – painter *Paulus Alexandrinus – astrologer *Paulus Aegineta – physician *Pausanias of Macedon – King of Macedon *Pausanias of Sparta – King of Sparta *Pausanias (geographer), Pausanias – traveller *Pedanius Dioscorides – physician *Peisander – Athenian statesman *Peisander (oligarch) () *Peithias – leader of Corcyra *Pelopidas – Theban statesman *Pelops of Sparta – King of Sparta *Perdiccas I of Macedon – King of Macedon *Perdiccas II of Macedon – King of Macedon *Perdiccas III of Macedon – King of Macedon *Periander – tyrant of Corinth, one of the Seven Sages of Greece *Pericles – Athenian statesman *Persephone-the goddess of the underworld *Perseus Argive King *Perseus of Macedon – King of Macedon *Phaedo of Elis – philosopher *Phaedrus (Athenian), Phaedrus – aristocrat *Phaenippus – archon of Athens *Phalaris – tyrant of Agrigentum *Pharacidas – Spartan admiral *Pherecydes of Athens – mythographer *Pherecydes of Syros – philosopher *Pheretima – Cyrenaean queen *Phidias – sculptor *Phidippides (Marathon runner), Phidippides – legendary runner *Philetaerus – Founder of the Attalid dynasty, king of Pergamum *Philippides of Paiania – Athenian aristocratic oligarch *Philodoppides – a lyric poet *Philonides (physician) *Philip I Philadelphus – Seleucid king of Syria *Philip II of Macedon – King of Macedon *Philip II Philoromaeus – Seleucid king of Syria *Philip III of Macedon – King of Macedon *Philip IV of Macedon – King of Macedon *Philip V of Macedon – King of Macedon *Philip V of Macedon – King of Macedon *Philippus of Chollidae – neighbour of Plato *Philistus – historian *Philitas of Cos – poet and scholar *Philo – philosopher *Philo of Byblos – writer *Philolaus – philosopher *Philotas – son of Parmenion and Alexander the Great, Alexander the Great's generals *Philochorus – historian *Philocles – Athenian tragic poet *Philostephanus – a writer *Philotis (Φιλῶτις) – a woman *Philoxenios – Indo-Greek king *Philoxenos of Eretria – painter *Philoxenus of Leucas – glutton *Philoxenus of Cythera, Philoxenus – poet *Phocion – Athenian statesman *Phocylides – poet *Phormio – Athenian general *Phryne – courtesan *Phrynichus (tragic poet) (6th-5th century BC) – playwright *Phrynichus (comic poet) (late 5th century BC) - writer of old Attic comedy *Phrynichus (oligarch) (died 411 BC) - Athenian general who took a leading part in establishing the oligarchy of the Four Hundred *Pigres of Halicarnassus – poet *Pindar – poet *Pirrone (philosopher), Pirrone – philosopher *Peisistratos (Athens), Pisistratus – tyrant of Athens *Pittacus of Mytilene – one of the Seven Sages of Greece *Pithios – architect *Plato – philosopher *Pleistarchus – King of Sparta *Pleistoanax – King of Sparta *Plotinus – philosopher *Plutarch – biographer *Polemon (scholarch) – Platonist philosopher *Polemon of Athens – Stoic philosopher *Polemon of Laodicea – sophist *Polybius – historian *Polycarp – Christian saint *Polycrates – tyrant of Samos *Polycrete (Πολυκρίτη) – a woman *Polydectes – King of Sparta *Polydorus – King of Sparta *Polygnotus – painter *

– sculptor *Polyperchon – Macedonian regent *Porphyry (philosopher), Porphyry – philosopher *Posidippus (comic poet), Posidippus – comic poet *Posidippus (epigrammatic poet), Posidippus – epigrammatic poet *Posidonius – philosopher *Pratinas – playwright *Praxilla – poet *Praxiteles – sculptor *Procles – King of Sparta *Proclus – philosopher *Proclus of Naucratis – rhetorician *Procopius – prominent Late antiquity, late antique Greeks, Greek scholar from Caesarea Maritima *Prodicus – philosopher *Protagoras – philosopher *Proteas – Athenian general *Prusias I of Bithynia – king of Bithynia *Prusias II of Bithynia – king of Bithynia *Prytanis – King of Sparta *Ptolemaeus of Alorus – military leader *Ptolemy I of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *Ptolemy I of Macedon – King of Macedon *Ptolemy II of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *Ptolemy III of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *Ptolemy IV of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *Ptolemy IX of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *Ptolemy V of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *Ptolemy VI of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *Ptolemy VII of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *Ptolemy VIII of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *Ptolemy X of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *Ptolemy XI of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *Ptolemy XII of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *Ptolemy XIII of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *Ptolemy XIV of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt *Ptolemy – geographer *Ptolemy Philadelphus – son of Antony and Cleopatra *Ptolemy of Ascalon - grammarian *Pyrrho – philosopher *Pyrrhus of Epirus – king of Epirus *Pythagoras – mathematician *Pytheas – explorer *Pythocles – philosopher *Pythodorus – Athenian general

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*Rhianus – poet and grammarian *Rhoecus – sculptor

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*Sappho – poet *Satyros – architect *Satyros I – ruler of Bosporan Kingdom *Satyrus the Peripatetic – philosopher and historian *Scopas – sculptor *Scopas of Aetolia Aetolian politician and general. *Scylax of Caryanda – explorer *Seleucus I Nicator – Seleucid king of Syria *Seleucus II Callinicus – Seleucid king of Syria *Seleucus III Ceraunus – Seleucid king of Syria *Seleucus IV Philopator – Seleucid king of Syria *Seleucus V Philometor – Seleucid king of Syria *Seleucus VI Epiphanes – Seleucid king of Syria *Seleucus VII Kybiosaktes – Seleucid king of Syria *Sextus Empiricus – philosopher *Simmias of Thebes, Simmias – philosopher *Simonides of Amorgos – poet *Simonides of Ceos – poet *Socrates – philosopher *Socrates Scholasticus – Christian historian *Socrates the Younger – Platonic philosopher *Solon – Athens lawmaker, one of the Seven Sages of Greece *Soos (king of Sparta), Soos – King of Sparta *Sopatras – philosopher *Sophocles – two; playwright, Athenian general *Sophytes – Indo-Greek king *Sosicles (statesman) – Corinthian statesman *Sosigenes of Alexandria, Sosigenes – inventor of Julian calendar *Sosthenes of Macedon – King of Macedon *Sostratus (orator), Sostratus – orator *Spartacus – Thracian slave *Speusippus – philosopher *Spintharus (philosopher), Spintharus – philosopher *Spintharus of Corinth – architect *Sporus of Nicaea – mathematician *Stesichorus – poet *Stesimbrotus – writer *Sthenippus (Σθένιππος) – a LaconianPolyaenus, Stratagems, 26
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*Teleclus – King of Sparta *Terence – comedic playwright *Terpander – poet and musician *Thaïs, Thais – courtesan *Thales – philosopher *Thallus (historian), Thallus – historian/chronographer *Theaetetus (mathematician), Theaetetus of Athens – mathematician *Theagenes of Megara – tyrant *Theagenes of Rhegium – writer *Theagenes of Thebes – general who fell at the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC), battle of Chaeronea *Theages – pupil of Socrates *Theano (mathematician), Theano – reputedly wife of Pythagoras *Themistius – philosopher and rhetor *Themistocles – archon of Athens * Themistogenes – writer of the Anabasis, presumed since Plutarch to be Xenophon *Theocritus – poet *Theodectes – playwright *Theodorus of Samos – sculptor *Theodorus of Cyrene – mathematician *Theodorus of Gadara – rhetor *Theodotus of Byzantium – theologian *Theognis of Megara – poet *Theon of Alexandria – librarian *Theon of Smyrna – philosopher *Aelius Theon – rhetor *Theophilus (poet), Theophilus – Athenian comic poet *Theophrastus – philosopher *Theopompus – three; **Theopompus (king of Sparta), King of Sparta **Theopompus (comic poet), comic poet ** Theopompus, orator *Theramenes – Athenian statesman *Therimenes – Spartan general *Theron of Acragas – tyrant of Agrigentum *Thespus – actor *Thessalus – two physicians *Thibron (general), Thibron (Θίβρων) – Spartan general *Thorax of Lacedaemonia – Spartan soldier *Thrasippus – friend of Plato *Thrasybulus – Athenian general *Thrasyllus – Athenian general *Thrasymachus – rhetorician *Thrasymelidas – Spartan general *Thucydides (politician), Thucydides – Athenian statesman *Thucydides – historian *Ticidas – erotic poet *Tidas – tyrant of Sicyon *Timachidas – writer *Timaeus (historian), Timaeus of Tauromenium – historian *Timaeus of Locri – philosopher *Timagenes – teacher *Timanthes – painter *Timasitheus of Trapezus - diplomat and interpreter *Timocharis – philosopher *Timoclea – Theban lady shown mercy by

; sister of Theagenes of Thebes *Timocles – Middle Comedy poet *Timocrates (general), Timocrates – Spartan general *Timocreon – poet *Timoleon – Corinthian general *Timon of Phlius – philosopher *Timostratus – Athenian comic poet *Timotheus (general), Timotheus of Athens – general *Timotheus of Miletus – poet *Timotheus (sculptor) – sculptor *Tisamenus (son of Antiochus), Tisamenus – soothsayer for the Greeks during the

*Tolmides – Athenian general *Triphiodorus or Tryphiodorus – epic poet *Tynnichus – poet *Tyrannion of Amisus – grammarian *Tyrimmas of Macedon – King of Macedon *Tyrtaeus – poet

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*Ulysses – see Odysseus

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*Xanthippe – wife of Socrates *Xanthippus – two; father of Pericles, Spartan mercenary *Xanthus of Sicily – poet *Xenagoras (historian), Xenagoras – writer *Xenarchus – Middle Comedy poet *Xenocles – two playwrights *Xenoclides – Spartan general *Xenocrates – philosopher *Xenocrates of Aphrodisias – physician *Xenophanes – philosopher *Xenophilus – philosopher *Xenophon – soldier and historian *Xenophon of Ephesus – writer

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*Zaleucus – lawgiver of Italian Locri *Zeno of Citium – philosopher *Zeno of Elea – philosopher *Zeno of Rhodes – politician and historian *Zeno of Sidon – philosopher *Zenobius – philosopher *Zenodorus (mathematician), Zenodorus – writer *Zenodotus – grammarian *Zeuxidamas – King of Sparta *Zeuxis and Parrhasius – painters *Zoilus – grammarian *Zonis – orator *Zosimas – historian

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