List of ancient Greek historians

Archaic Greece

• Acusilaus
• Amelesagoras
• Cadmus of Miletus
• Hecataeus of Miletus
• Hellanicus of Lesbos
• Pherecydes of Athens
• Stesimbrotos of Thasos
• Xanthus (historian)

Classical Greece

• Antiochus of Syracuse
• Callisthenes
• Cratippus of Athens
• Ctesias
• Dinon
• Duris of Samos
• Ephorus
• Eudemus of Rhodes
• Hellanicus of Lesbos
• Heracleides of Cyme
• Herodotus
• Philistus
• Theopompus
• Thucydides
• Xenophon
• Hellenica Oxyrhynchia

Hellenistic Greece

• Abydenus
• Aesopus (historian)
• Agatharchides
• Agathocles (writers)
• Alexander Polyhistor
• Anticlides
• Antipater
• Antisthenes of Rhodes
• Aratus of Sicyon
• Artapanus of Alexandria
• Berossus
• Callixenus of Rhodes
• Cleitarchus
• Craterus (historian)
• Ctesicles
• Deinias of Argos
• Demetrius the Chronographer
• Diyllus
• Duris of Samos
• Euphantus
• Eupolemus
• Hecataeus of Abdera
• Hegesander (historian)
• Hegesias of Magnesia
• Hippobotus
• Jason of Cyrene
• Leon of Pella
• Manetho
• Marsyas of Pella
• Marsyas of Philippi
• Menander of Ephesus
• Neanthes of Cyzicus
• Nicander
• Paeon of Amathus
• Palaephatus
• Philinus of Agrigentum
• Philochorus
• Philostephanus
• Phylarchus
• Polybius
• Posidonius
• Satyrus the Peripatetic
• Sosicrates
• Theopompus
• Timaeus (historian)

Roman Greece

• Gaius Acilius
• Acesander
• Alexander Lychnus
• Alexander Polyhistor
• Appian
• Arrian
• Zarmanochegas
• Caecilius of Calacte
• Callinicus (Sophist)
• Castor of Rhodes
• Dio Chrysostom
• Lucius Cincius Alimentus
• Criton of Heraclea
• Criton of Pieria
• Dexippus
• Cassius Dio
• Diocles of Peparethus
• Diodorus Siculus
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus
• Ephorus the Younger
• Herodian
• Hypsicrates (historian)
• Josephus
• Sextus Julius Africanus
• Memnon of Heraclea
• Nicias of Nicaea
• Nicolaus of Damascus
• Pamphile of Epidaurus
• Philo of Byblos
• Plutarch
• Polyaenus
• Polybius
• Posidonius
• Gaius Asinius Quadratus
• Strabo
• Thallus (historian)
• Theophanes of Mytilene

Byzantine Empire

• Procopius
• Eusebius (Chronicon)
• Jerome (Chronicon)
• Agathias