🏳️Famous People from Classical Athens
A comprehensive directory of 178 historically significant figures from Classical Athens.
Total Figures
178
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)
Xenocrates
mathematician
4th-century BC Greek philosopher, mathematician and scholarch
Theophrastus
botanist
Greek philosopher (c.371-c.287 BC)
Socrates
ethicist
5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
Euripides
philosopher
5th-century BC Athenian playwright
Isocrates
orator
Greek rhetorician and writer (436–338 BC)
Eupolis
comedy writer
Athenian playwright of Old Comedy (5th-century BC)
Thespis
playwright
6th century BCE Greek actor and poet
Plato
epigrammatist
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
Thucydides
historian
5th-century BC Athenian historian and general
Aristophanes
comedy writer
Classical Athenian comic playwright (c. 446 – c. 386 BC)
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)
Menander
comedy writer
Athenian playwright of New Comedy
Hedylus
epigrammatist
Ancient Greek poet and writer
Solon
elegist
Athenian legislator
Aeschines
diplomat
Greek orator and statesman (4th century BCE)
Demosthenes
diplomat
Classical Athenian statesman and orator (384–322 BC)
Aeschylus
playwright
5th century BC Athenian Greek tragedian
Sophocles
playwright
Ancient Greek playwright
Sophilos
Attic potter
Ancient Athenian vase painter
Lydos
Attic vase-painter
6th-century BC Greek vase painter
Phidias
architect
Greek sculptor, painter and architect (c.480–430 BC)
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