🏳️Famous People from Classical Athens
A comprehensive directory of 111 historically significant figures from Classical Athens.
Total Figures
111
Categories
15
Time Span
800BC–0
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Notable Figures Overview
Distribution by Historical Era
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Theophrastus
botanist
Greek philosopher (c.371-c.287 BC)
Xenocrates
mathematician
4th-century BC Greek philosopher, mathematician and scholarch
Euclid
mathematician
Ancient Greek mathematician (fl. 300 BC)
Speusippus
mathematician
4th-century BC Greek philosopher
Euripides
philosopher
5th-century BC Athenian playwright
Thucydides
historian
5th-century BC Athenian historian and general
Epicurus
philosopher
Ancient Greek philosopher
Solon
elegist
Athenian legislator
Demetrius of Phalerum
librarian
Greek statesman and philosopher (c.350–c.280 BC)
Eupolis
comedy writer
Athenian playwright of Old Comedy (5th-century BC)
Xenophon
historian
Greek philosopher, historian, soldier (c. 430–355/354 BC)
Isocrates
orator
Greek rhetorician and writer (436–338 BC)
Thespis
playwright
6th century BCE Greek actor and poet
Aristophanes
comedy writer
Classical Athenian comic playwright (c. 446 – c. 386 BC)
Sophocles
playwright
Ancient Greek playwright
Plato
epigrammatist
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
Socrates
ethicist
5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
Aeschines
diplomat
Greek orator and statesman (4th century BCE)
Menander
comedy writer
Athenian playwright of New Comedy
Aeschylus
playwright
5th century BC Athenian Greek tragedian
Demosthenes
diplomat
Classical Athenian statesman and orator (384–322 BC)
Hedylus
epigrammatist
Ancient Greek poet and writer
Painter of Acropolis 606
Attic vase-painter
Ancient Attic-Greek black-figure vase-painter
Euphranor
painter
Painter and sculptor
Ptoon Painter
Attic vase-painter
Ancient attic-Greek black-figure vase painter
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