List of ancient Greek writers

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

• 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

• 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.)