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. .
• 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. .
• Beye, Charles Rowan (1987). Ancient Greek Literature and Society. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. .
• 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 (Original Greek with facing page English translations, an excellent starting point for students with a serious interest in ancient lyric poetry.)