🏳️Famous People from Classical Athens
A comprehensive directory of 228 historically significant figures from Classical Athens.
Total Figures
228
Categories
15
Time Span
800BC–500
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MedievalMED(1)
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Xenocrates
mathematician
4th-century BC Greek philosopher, mathematician and scholarch
Euclid
mathematician
Ancient Greek mathematician (fl. 300 BC)
Theophrastus
botanist
Greek philosopher (c.371-c.287 BC)
Speusippus
mathematician
4th-century BC Greek philosopher
Thespis
playwright
6th century BCE Greek actor and poet
Euripides
philosopher
5th-century BC Athenian playwright
Sophocles
playwright
Ancient Greek playwright
Socrates
ethicist
5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
Aeschylus
playwright
5th century BC Athenian Greek tragedian
Aeschines
diplomat
Greek orator and statesman (4th century BCE)
Hedylus
epigrammatist
Ancient Greek poet and writer
Demetrius of Phalerum
librarian
Greek statesman and philosopher (c.350–c.280 BC)
Menander
comedy writer
Athenian playwright of New Comedy
Eupolis
comedy writer
Athenian playwright of Old Comedy (5th-century BC)
Thucydides
historian
5th-century BC Athenian historian and general
Plato
epigrammatist
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
Aristophanes
comedy writer
Classical Athenian comic playwright (c. 446 – c. 386 BC)
Isocrates
orator
Greek rhetorician and writer (436–338 BC)
Xenophon
historian
Greek philosopher, historian, soldier (c. 430–355/354 BC)
Epicurus
philosopher
Ancient Greek philosopher
Demosthenes
diplomat
Classical Athenian statesman and orator (384–322 BC)
Solon
elegist
Athenian legislator
Meleager Painter
Attic vase-painter
Ancient Greek vase painter
Penthesilea Painter
Attic vase-painter
Greek vase painter (c. 5. century BCE)
Ptoon Painter
Attic vase-painter
Ancient attic-Greek black-figure vase painter
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