🏳️Famous People from Classical Athens
A comprehensive directory of 205 historically significant figures from Classical Athens.
Total Figures
205
Categories
15
Time Span
800BC–0
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Theophrastus
botanist
Greek philosopher (c.371-c.287 BC)
Euclid
mathematician
Ancient Greek mathematician (fl. 300 BC)
Speusippus
mathematician
4th-century BC Greek philosopher
Xenocrates
mathematician
4th-century BC Greek philosopher, mathematician and scholarch
Thucydides
historian
5th-century BC Athenian historian and general
Eupolis
comedy writer
Athenian playwright of Old Comedy (5th-century BC)
Plato
epigrammatist
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
Aristophanes
comedy writer
Classical Athenian comic playwright (c. 446 – c. 386 BC)
Thespis
playwright
6th century BCE Greek actor and poet
Menander
comedy writer
Athenian playwright of New Comedy
Isocrates
orator
Greek rhetorician and writer (436–338 BC)
Sophocles
playwright
Ancient Greek playwright
Aeschylus
playwright
5th century BC Athenian Greek tragedian
Xenophon
historian
Greek philosopher, historian, soldier (c. 430–355/354 BC)
Epicurus
philosopher
Ancient Greek philosopher
Demetrius of Phalerum
librarian
Greek statesman and philosopher (c.350–c.280 BC)
Hedylus
epigrammatist
Ancient Greek poet and writer
Aeschines
diplomat
Greek orator and statesman (4th century BCE)
Solon
elegist
Athenian legislator
Socrates
ethicist
5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
Demosthenes
diplomat
Classical Athenian statesman and orator (384–322 BC)
Euripides
philosopher
5th-century BC Athenian playwright
Makron
Attic vase-painter
Ancient Greek vase painter (5./6. century BCE)
Gorgon Painter
Attic vase-painter
Ancient Greek Attic black-figure vase painter
Phidias
architect
Greek sculptor, painter and architect (c.480–430 BC)
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