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

  1. Aeschines – Rhetorics
  • Aeschylus – Tragedy
  • Aesop – Fables
  • Alcaeus of Mytilene – Lyric Poetry
  • Alcman – Lyric Poetry
  • Anacreon – Lyric Poetry
  • Anaxagoras – Philosophy
  • Anaximander – Philosophy, Mathematics
  • Anaximenes – Philosophy, Mathematics
  • Andocides – Rhetorics
  • Antiphon – Rhetorics
  • Apollodorus of Carystus – Comedy
  • Aristophanes – Comedy
  • Archimedes – Mathematics, Geometry
  • Aristotle – Philosophy, Physics, Biology
  • Aratus – Poetry, Astronomy
  • Arrian – History
  • Athanasius of Alexandria – Theology
  • Bacchylides – Lyric Poetry
  • Callimachus - Small-scale, personal poetry
  • Chionides – Comedy
  • Chrysippus – Philosophy
  • Claudius Ptolemy – Geography, Astronomy
  • Clement of Alexandria – Theology, Philosophy
  • Democritus – Philosophy, Chemistry
  • Demosthenes – Rhetorics, Politics
  • Dinarchus – Rhetorics
  • Dinon – History
  • Diodorus – History
  • Diogenes Laërtius – History of Philosophy
  • Duris of Samos – History
  • Epicurus – Philosophy
  • Epimenides of Knossos – Philosophy, Philosophical poetry
  • Eubulus (poet) – Comedy
  • Euclid of Megara – Mathematics, Geometry
  • Euripides – Tragedy
  • Evagrius Ponticus – Theology
  • Gorgias – Philosophy
  • Hegemon of Thasos – Comedy
  • Heraclitus – Philosophy
  • Herodotus of Halicarnassus – History
  • Hesiod – Epic Poetry
  • Hippocrates of Cos – Medicine
  • Homer – Epic Poetry
  • Hypereides – Rhetorics
  • Iamblichus – Philosophy
  • Ibycus of Rhegium – Lyric Poetry
  • Irenaeus – Theology, Philosophy
  • Isaeus – Rhetorics, Logography
  • Isocrates – Rhetorics
  • Justin the Martyr – Theology, Philosophy
  • Leucippus – Philosophy, Atomism
  • Lucian – Satire, Rhetoric
  • Luke the Evangelist – Theology, Medicine, History
  • Lycurgus of Athens – Rhetorics
  • Lysias – Logography, Rhetorics
  • Maximus the Confessor – Theology, Philosophy
  • Menander – Comedy
  • Melissus of Samos – Philosophy
  • Nicomachus of Gerasa – Mathematics
  • Origen – Theology, Philosophy
  • Papias of Hierapolis – Theology
  • Parmenides – Philosophy
  • Pherecydes of Athens – Mythography, Logography
  • Philo of Alexandria – Theology, Philosophy
  • Pindar – Lyrical Poetry
  • Plato – Philosophy
  • Plutarch – History, Biography, Philosophy
  • Posidippus (comic poet) – Comedy
  • Protagoras – Philosophy
  • Sappho of Lesbos – Lyric Poetry
  • Simonides – Lyric Poetry
  • Solon – Politics, Philosophy
  • Sophocles – Tragedy
  • Stesichorus – Lyric Poetry
  • Strattis – Comedy
  • Thales of Miletus – Philosophy, Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics
  • Theocritus – Bucolic poetry
  • Theognis of Megara – Lyric Poetry
  • Theopompus – History
  • Thucydides – History
  • Xenarchus of Seleucia – Philosophy, Philology
  • Xenophanes– Philosophy, Theology
  • Xenophon – History
  • Zeno of Citium – Philosophy
  • Zeno of Elea – Philosophy
  • Further reading[edit]


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