🏳️Famous People from Classical Athens
A comprehensive directory of 202 historically significant figures from Classical Athens.
Total Figures
202
Categories
15
Time Span
800BC–0
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Speusippus
mathematician
4th-century BC Greek philosopher
Euclid
mathematician
Ancient Greek mathematician (fl. 300 BC)
Theophrastus
botanist
Greek philosopher (c.371-c.287 BC)
Xenocrates
mathematician
4th-century BC Greek philosopher, mathematician and scholarch
Eupolis
comedy writer
Athenian playwright of Old Comedy (5th-century BC)
Solon
elegist
Athenian legislator
Euripides
philosopher
5th-century BC Athenian playwright
Menander
comedy writer
Athenian playwright of New Comedy
Plato
epigrammatist
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
Socrates
ethicist
5th-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)
Thucydides
historian
5th-century BC Athenian historian and general
Sophocles
playwright
Ancient Greek playwright
Xenophon
historian
Greek philosopher, historian, soldier (c. 430–355/354 BC)
Aeschylus
playwright
5th century BC Athenian Greek tragedian
Epicurus
philosopher
Ancient Greek philosopher
Demetrius of Phalerum
librarian
Greek statesman and philosopher (c.350–c.280 BC)
Demosthenes
diplomat
Classical Athenian statesman and orator (384–322 BC)
Aeschines
diplomat
Greek orator and statesman (4th century BCE)
Thespis
playwright
6th century BCE Greek actor and poet
Hedylus
epigrammatist
Ancient Greek poet and writer
Makron
Attic vase-painter
Ancient Greek vase painter (5./6. century BCE)
Epiktetos
Attic vase-painter
Greek vase painter active between 520 and 490 BC
Sophilos
Attic potter
Ancient Athenian vase painter
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