List of ancient Greek writers

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

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

Further reading

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