🏳️Famous People from Classical Athens
A comprehensive directory of 208 historically significant figures from Classical Athens.
Total Figures
208
Categories
15
Time Span
800BC–0
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Xenocrates
mathematician
4th-century BC Greek philosopher, mathematician and scholarch
Speusippus
mathematician
4th-century BC Greek philosopher
Euclid
mathematician
Ancient Greek mathematician (fl. 300 BC)
Theophrastus
botanist
Greek philosopher (c.371-c.287 BC)
Sophocles
playwright
Ancient Greek playwright
Plato
epigrammatist
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
Eupolis
comedy writer
Athenian playwright of Old Comedy (5th-century BC)
Epicurus
philosopher
Ancient Greek philosopher
Aristophanes
comedy writer
Classical Athenian comic playwright (c. 446 – c. 386 BC)
Isocrates
orator
Greek rhetorician and writer (436–338 BC)
Thespis
playwright
6th century BCE Greek actor and poet
Demetrius of Phalerum
librarian
Greek statesman and philosopher (c.350–c.280 BC)
Thucydides
historian
5th-century BC Athenian historian and general
Socrates
ethicist
5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
Hedylus
epigrammatist
Ancient Greek poet and writer
Euripides
philosopher
5th-century BC Athenian playwright
Solon
elegist
Athenian legislator
Xenophon
historian
Greek philosopher, historian, soldier (c. 430–355/354 BC)
Aeschylus
playwright
5th century BC Athenian Greek tragedian
Demosthenes
diplomat
Classical Athenian statesman and orator (384–322 BC)
Menander
comedy writer
Athenian playwright of New Comedy
Aeschines
diplomat
Greek orator and statesman (4th century BCE)
Douris
Attic vase-painter
5th-century BC Greek vase painter and potter
Exekias
ancient Greek potter
Ancient Athenian vase painter
Painter of Acropolis 606
Attic vase-painter
Ancient Attic-Greek black-figure vase-painter
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