List of ancient Greeks – Wikipedia

This an alphabetical list of ancient Greeks. These include ethnic Greeks from Greece and the Mediterranean world up to about 200 AD.

• Abronychus – Athenian commander and diplomat
• Acacius of Caesarea – bishop of Caesarea
• Acesias – physician^[1]
• Acestorides – tyrant of Syracuse
• Achaeus – general
• Achaeus of Eretria – poet
• Achermus – sculptor
• Achilles Tatius – writer
• Acron – physician
• Acrotatus I – son of King Cleomenes of Sparta
• Acrotatus II – King of Sparta, grandson of the above
• Acusilaus – scholar
• Adeimantus – Corinthian general
• Adrianus – sophist
• Aglaophon – painter
• Aedesia – female Neoplatonic philosopher
• Aedesius – philosopher
• Aegineta – modeller
• Aeimnestus – Spartan soldier
• Aelianus Tacticus – military writer
• Aelius Aristides – orator and writer
• Aeneas Tacticus – writer
• Aenesidemus – Sceptic philosopher
• Aeropus I of Macedon – king
• Aeropus II of Macedon – king
• Aesara – female Pythagorean philosopher
• Aeschines Socraticus – Socratic philosopher
• Aeschines – Athenian orator
• Aeschines – Physician
• Aeschylus – playwright
• Aesop – author of fables
• Aetion – painter
• Aetius – philosopher
• Agallis – female grammarian
• Agarista – see Agariste
• Agariste of Sicyon, daughter of the tyrant of Sicyon, Cleisthenes.
• Agariste, daughter of Hippocrates, wife of Xanthippus, and mother of Pericles.
• Agasias – sculptor
• Agasicles – King of Sparta
• Agatharchides – historian and geographer
• Agatharchus – painter
• Agatharchus of Syracuse – naval commander
• Agathias – historian
• Agathinus – medicine
• Agathocles – tyrant of Syracuse
• Agathocles of Bactria – Indo-Greek king
• Agathon – tragic poet
• Agathotychus – veterinary surgeon
• Ageladas – sculptor
• Agesander – sculptor
• Agesilaus I – King of Sparta
• Agesilaus II – King of Sparta
• Agesipolis I – King of Sparta
• Agesipolis II – King of Sparta
• Agesipolis III – King of Sparta
• Agis I – King of Sparta
• Agis II – King of Sparta
• Agis III – King of Sparta
• Agis IV – King of Sparta
• Aglaonike – first female astronomer of Ancient Greece
• Agnodike – female Athenian physician and gynecologist
• Agoracritus – sculptor
• Agresphon – philologist
• Agrippa – astronomer
• Agroetas – historian
• Agyrrhius – Athenian politician c. 400 BC
• Albinus – philosopher
• Alcaeus – comic and lyric poet
• Alcaeus of Messene – Greek author of a number of epigrams
• Alcaeus of Mytilene – playwright
• Alcamenes – sculptor
• Alcetas I of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Alcibiades – Athenian general
• Alcidamas – sophist
• Alciphron – sophist
• Alcisthene – female painter
• Alcmaeon of Croton – physician
• Alcman – lyric poet 7th century BC
• Alcmenes – King of Sparta
• Alexander Aetolus – poet
• Alexander Balas – Seleucid king of Syria
• Alexander Cornelius – grammarian
• Alexander I of Epirus- king of Epirus (also known as Alexander Molossus)
• Alexander I of Molossia
• Alexander II of Epirus – king of Epirus
• Alexander II of Molossia
• Alexander of Abonuteichos – cult leader
• Alexander of Aphrodisias – Peripatetic philosopher
• Alexander of Greece – rhetorician
• Alexander of Pherae – tyrant
• Alexander Polyhistor – writer
• Alexander the Great – King of Macedon
• Alexandrides – historian
• Alexias – physician
• Alexion – physician
• Alexis – playwright
• Alexis – sculptor, pupil of Polykleitos
• Alypius of Alexandria – music writer
• Ambryon – writer
• Ameinias of Athens – Athenian commander during the Greco-Persian Wars
• Ameinocles – Corinthian inventor of the trireme
• Ameipsias – Athenian comic poet
• Amelesagoras – writer
• Amelius – philosopher
• Amentes – surgeon
• Ammonius Grammaticus – writer
• Ammonius Hermiae – philosopher
• Ammonius Saccas – philosopher
• Amphicrates – king of Samos
• Amphis – Middle Comedy poet
• Amynander – king of Athamania
• Anacharsis – philosopher
• Anacreon – lyric poet 6th century BC
• Anaxagoras – philosopher
• Anaxander – King of Sparta
• Anaxandra – female artist of Sicyon
• Anaxandridas I – King of Sparta
• Anaxandridas II – King of Sparta
• Anaxandrides – philosopher
• Anaxarchus – philosopher
• Anaxidamus – King of Sparta
• Anaxilas of Rhegium – tyrant
• Anaxilas – Middle Comedy poet
• Anaxilaus – physician
• Anaximander – philosopher
• Anaximenes of Lampsacus – historian
• Anaximenes of Miletus – philosopher
• Anaxippus – New Comedy poet
• Andocides – two; Athenian politician, potter
• Andreas – physician
• Andriscus – Adramyttian adventurer
• Andromachus of Cyprus – admiral of Alexander the Great
• Andron – writer
• Andronicus of Cyrrhus – astronomer
• Andronicus Rhodius – Peripatetic philosopher
• Androsthenes – navigator
• Androtion – Athenian politician and writer
• Anniceris – philosopher
• Anonymus (author of Antiatticista), an opponent of Phrynichus Arabius
• Anser – erotic poet
• Antagoras of Rhodes – writer
• Antalcidas – Spartan general
• Antenor – sculptor
• Anthemius of Tralles – architect
• Anticleides – writer
• Antidorus of Cyme – grammarian
• Antigenes – Attic poet
• Antigonus of Carystus – scholar
• Antigonus II Gonatas – King of Macedon
• Antigonus III Doson – King of Macedon
• Antigonus III of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Antimachus – poet and scholar
• Antimachus I – Greco-Bactrian king
• Antinous – lover of Hadrian
• Antiochis – Seleucid queen of Cappadocia
• Antiochus of Ascalon – philosopher
• Antiochus I Soter – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus II Theos – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus III the Great – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus IV Epiphanes – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus IX Cyzicenus – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus V Eupator – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus VI Dionysus – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus VII Sidetes – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus VIII Grypus – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus X Eusebes – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus XI Ephiphanes – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus XII Dionysus – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus XIII Asiaticus – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antipater II of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Antipater III of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Antipater of Sidon – writer
• Antipater of Tarsus – philosopher
• Antipater of Thessalonica – epigrammatist
• Antipater of Tyre – philosopher
• Antipater – Macedonian general
• Antiphanes – playwright
• Antiphemus – one of the founders of the city of Gela^[2]
• Antiphilus – writer
• Antiphon – three; two Athenian orators, tragic poet
• Antisthenes – two; philosopher, writer
• Antonius Diogenes – writer
• Antoninus Liberalis – grammarian
• Antyllus – physician
• Anyte of Tegea – poet
• Anytos – Athenian general
• Apega of Sparta – wife of Nabis
• Apelles – painter
• Apellicon – book collector
• Apion – scholar
• Apollocrates – tyrant of Syracuse
• Apollodorus of Alexandria – physician
• Apollodorus of Athens – scholar
• Apollodorus of Carystus – New Comedy poet
• Apollodorus of Damascus – architect
• Apollodorus of Gela – New Comedy poet
• Apollodorus of Phaleron – student of Socrates
• Apollodorus of Pergamon – rhetor
• Apollodorus of Seleuceia on the Tigris – Stoic philosopher
• Apollodorus – several; painter, grammarian, comic playwright, architect
• Apollodotus I – Indo-Greek king
• Apollonius – finance minister of Egypt
• Apollonius Molon – rhetor
• Apollonius Mys – physician
• Apollonius of Citium – physician
• Apollonius of Perga – mathematician
• Apollonius of Rhodes – writer and librarian
• Apollonius of Tyana – Neopythagorean sage
• Apollonius Sophista – scholar
• Apollonius – several; philosopher and mathematician
• Apollophanes – comedian
• Apollos – early Christian
• Appian – historian
• Apsines – Roman-era Athenian rhetorician
• Arachidamia – wealthy Spartan queen
• Araros – son of Aristophanes
• Aratus – two; scholar, statesman
• Arcesilas – four Cyrene kings
• Arcesilaus – two; philosopher, sculptor
• Archidameia – name of several women
• Archidamis (Ἀρχίδαμις) – daughter of the Spartan King Cleadas
• Archedemus of Tarsus – Stoic philosopher
• Archedicus – New Comedy poet
• Archelaus I – King of Macedon
• Archelaus II – King of Macedon
• Archelaus – five; philosopher, Pontic army officer, phrourarch, son of Androcles, Judaean ruler
• Archermus – sculptor
• Archestratus – two; Athenian general, writer
• Archinus – Athenian politician
• Architimus – writer
• Archias – poet
• Archidamus I – King of Sparta
• Archidamus II – King of Sparta
• Archidamus III – King of Sparta
• Archidamus IV – King of Sparta
• Archidamus V – King of Sparta
• Archigenes – physician
• Archilochus – poet
• Archimedes – mathematician
• Archinos – Archon
• Archippas – Athenian comic poet
• Archytas – philosopher
• Arctinus – epic poet
• Aretaeus – medical writer
• Aretaphila of Cyrene – noblewoman who deposed the tyrant Nicocrates and his co-conspirators
• Arete of Cyrene – Cyrenaic philosopher, daughter of Aristippus
• Areus I – King of Sparta
• Areus II – King of Sparta
• Argas – notably bad poet
• Argentarius – two; epigrammatist, rhetorician
• Arignote – philosopher; student and perhaps daughter of Pythagoras
• Arimneste – Aristotle’s older sister
• Arion – poet
• Aristaeus – mathematician
• Aristagoras – tyrant of Miletus
• Aristander of Telmessus – soothsayer to Alexander the Great
• Aristarchus of Samos – astronomer and mathematician
• Aristarchus of Samothrace – critic and grammarian
• Aristarchus of Tegea – tragedian
• Aristeas – poet
• Aristeus – Corinthian general
• Aristias – playwright
• Aristides of Miletus – writer
• Aristides Quintilianus – writer
• Aristides – three; Athenian statesman, two painters
• Aristippus – philosopher
• Aristobulus of Cassandreia and Aristobulus of Paneas – two; historian, commentator
• Aristocles – three; Spartan general, two scholars
• Aristodemus – three; Spartan hero, Roman hero, historian
• Aristodemus of Cydathenaeum – student of Socrates
• Aristogiton – Athenian tyrannicide
• Aristolycus of Athens – athlete
• Aristomenes – two; Messenian hero, Athenian comedian
• Ariston of Alexandria – philosopher
• Ariston of Ceos – philosopher
• Ariston of Chios – philosopher
• Ariston (king of Sparta) – King of Sparta
• Aristonicus of Pergamum – Attalid king of Pergamum
• Aristonicus – grammarian
• Aristonous – citharode
• Aristonymus – comedian
• Aristophanes of Byzantium – scholar
• Aristophanes – playwright
• Aristophon – Athenian politician
• Aristotle – two; philosopher, Athenian general
• Aristoxenus – philosopher and music theorist
• Arius Didymus – philosophy teacher
• Arius – Christian heretic
• Arrian – historian
• Arsecilas – king of Cyrene
• Arsinoe I of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Arsinoe II of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Arsinoe III of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Artemidorus – three; grammarian, two travellers
• Artemisia I of Caria (fl. 480 BC), queen of Halicarnassus under the First Persian Empire, naval commander during the second Persian invasion of Greece
• Artemisia II of Caria (died 350 BC), queen of Caria under the First Persian Empire, ordered the construction of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
• Artemon – five scholars
• Artemon – painter
• Artemon of Clazomenae – engineer^[3]
• Arxilaidas (Ἀρξιλαΐδας) – Laconian general^[4]
• Asclepiades – four scholars
• Asclepigenia – Athenian mystic and philosopher, daughter of Plutarch of Athens
• Asclepiodotus – scholar
• Asius of Samos – poet
• Asmonius – grammarian
• Aspasia – hetaera of Pericles
• Aspasius – philosopher
• Astydamas – two poets
• Astyochus – Spartan general
• Athenaeus – two scholars, physician
• Athenais – prophet who told Alexander the Great of his allegedly divine ancestry
• Athenagoras of Athens – apologist
• Athenodorus – philosopher
• Athenodorus – actor
• Attalus I – Attalid king of Pergamum
• Attalus II – Attalid king of Pergamum
• Attalus III – Attalid king of Pergamum
• Autocrates – Athenian comic poet
• Autolycus of Pitane – astronomer
• Avaris – priest of Apollo (or Abaris the Hyperborean?)
• Axiochus – Alcmaeonid aristocrat
• Axionicus – Middle Comedy poet
• Axiothea of Phlius – female student of Plato

• Cadmus of Miletus – one of the first logographers
• Caecilius of Calacte – rhetorician
• Caesarion – son of Cleopatra VII, possibly by Julius Caesar
• Calamis – 2 sculptors
• Calliades – archon of Athens
• Callia – three; Athenian statesman, comic poet, nobleman
• Callias of Syracuse – historian
• Callicrates – architect
• Calicrates of Leontium – Acheaean statesman
• Callicratidas – Spartan general
• Callicratidas of Cyrene, a general^[5]
• Callicratides – Spartan general
• Callimachus (polemarch) – Athenian general
• Callimachus (sculptor) – sculptor
• Callimachus – poet
• Callinus – poet
• Calliphon – philosopher
• Callippides – runner
• Callippus – astronomer
• Callisthenes – historian
• Callisthenes (Seleucid)
• Callistratus – four; grammarian, poet, sophist, orator
• Carcinus (writer) – tragedian
• Carneades – philosopher
• Cassander – King of Macedon
• Castor of Rhodes – rhetorician
• Cebes – two philosophers
• Celsus – theologian
• Cephidorus – two; Old Comedy poet, writer
• Cephisodotus – two sculptors
• Cercidas – politician/philosopher/poet
• Cercops of Miletus – poet
• Chabrias – Athenian general
• Chaeremon – tragic poet
• Chaeremon of Alexandria – teacher
• Chaeris – writer
• Chaeron of Pellene – tyrant of Pellene
• Chamaeleon – writer
• Charax (writer) – writer
• Chares of Athens – general
• Chares of Lindos – sculptor
• Chares of Mytilene – historian
• Charidemus – Euboean soldier
• Charillus – King of Sparta
• Chariton – writer
• Charmadas – philosopher
• Charmidas – Athenian noble
• Charmus – Athenian polemarch
• Charon of Lampsacus – writer
• Charondas – lawgiver
• Cheramyes – nobleman of Samos
• Cheilonis (Χειλωνὶς) – wife of the Spartan King Theopompus^[6]
• Chilon – Spartan ephor
• Chionides – comic poet
• Choerilus – Athenian tragic poet
• Choerilus of Iasus – epic poet
• Choerilus of Samos – epic poet
• Chremonides – Athenian statesman
• Christodorus – epic poet
• Chrysanthius – philosopher
• Chrysippus – philosopher
• Dio Chrysostom – orator
• John Chrysostom – theologian
• Cimon – Athenian statesman
• Cimon of Cleonae – painter
• Cinaethon of Lacedaemon – epic poet
• Cineas – Thessalian diplomat
• Cineas (Athenian) – fought at the Battle of Mantinea (362 BC)
• Cinesias – Athenian poet
• Cleadas (Κλεάδας) – father of Cheilonis who was the wife of the Spartan King Theopompus^[6]
• Cleandridas – Spartan statesman
• Cleanthes – philosopher
• Clearchus of Athens – comic poet
• Clearchus of Herachleia
• Clearchus of Rhegium – sculptor, teacher of Pythagoras
• Clearchus of Sparta – general, son of Rhampias
• Clearchus of Soli – author, pupil of Aristotle
• Clearidas (general) – Spartan general
• Cledonius – grammarian
• Cleidemus – atthidographer
• Cleinias – Athenian general, father of Alcibiades
• Cleisthenes – Athenian statesman
• Cleisthenes of Sicyon – tyrant of Sicyon
• Cleitarchus – historian
• Cleitus – two Macedonian nobles
• Clement of Alexandria – theologian
• Cleombrotus I – King of Sparta
• Cleomedes – astronomer
• Cleomenes I – King of Sparta
• Cleomenes II – King of Sparta
• Cleomenes III – King of Sparta
• Cleomenes (seer) – seer
• Cleomenes of Naucratis – administrator
• Cleon – Athenian statesman
• Cleon of Sicyon – tyrant
• Cleonides – writer
• Cleonymus – Spartan general
• Cleopatra I of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Cleopatra II of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Cleopatra III of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Cleopatra IV of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Cleopatra Thea – Seleucid king of Syria
• Cleopatra V of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Cleopatra V of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Cleopatra VI of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Cleopatra VII of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Cleophon – two; Athenian statesman, tragic poet
• Clitomachus (philosopher) – philosopher
• Clitophon – oligarchic statesman
• Cnemus – Spartan general
• Colaeus – explorer
• Colluthus – epic poet
• Colotes (sculptor) – sculptor
• Colotes of Lampsacus – philosopher
• Comeas – archon of Athens
• Conon – Athenian general
• Conon of Samos – astronomer
• Conon (mythographer) – mythographer
• Corinna – poet
• Cosmas Indicopleustes – explorer
• Crantor – philosopher
• Craterus of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Crates of Thebes – philosopher
• Crates of Mallus – grammarian and philosopher
• Crates of Olynthys – architect
• Cratesipolis – queen
• Cratippus – historian
• Cratylus – philosopher
• Creon – archon of Athens
• Cresilas – sculptor
• Critias – one of the Thirty Tyrants
• Critius – sculptor
• Crito – several
• Critolaus – general
• Croesus – king of Lydia
• Ctesias – physician and historian
• Ctesibius – scientist
• Cylon – attempted usurper in Athens
• Cynaethus – writer
• Cynegeirus – heroic soldier
• Cynisca – female Spartan athlete
• Cypselus – tyrant of Corinth

• Lacedaimonius – Athenian general
• Lachares – tyrant of Athens
• Laches – Athenian aristocrat and general
• Lacritus – sophist
• Lacydes – philosopher
• Lais of Corinth – hetaera
• Lais of Hyccara – hetaera
• Lamachus – Athenian general
• Lamprocles – Athenian musician and poet
• Lamprus of Erythrae – philosopher
• Lanike – mother of Cleitus the Black
• Lasus of Hermione – poet
• Leochares – sculptor
• Leon – King of Sparta
• Leonidas I – King of Sparta
• Leonidas II – King of Sparta
• Leonida of Alexandria – astrologer and poet
• Leonnatus – Macedonian noble
• Leosthenes – Athenian general
• Leotychidas II – King of Sparta
• Leotychides – Spartan general
• Lesbonax – writer
• Lesches – epic poet
• Leucippus – philosopher
• Leucon – Old Comedy poet
• Libanius – writer
• Licymnius of Chios – poet
• Livius Andronicus – poet, dramaturg, colonist and slave
• Lobon – literary forger
• Longinus – literary critic
• Longus – writer
• Lucian – writer
• Lyco – philosopher
• Lycophron – three; poet, son of Periander, Spartan general
• Lycortas – statesman and father of Polybius
• Lycurgus of Arcadia, king
• Lycurgus of Athens, one of the ten notable orators at Athens, (4th century BC)
• Lycurgus (of Nemea), king
• Lycurgus of Sparta, creator of constitution of Sparta
• Lycurgus of Thrace, king, opponent of Dionysus
• Lycurgus, a.k.a. Lycomedes, in Homer
• Lycus – historian
• Lydiadas – Megalopolitan general
• Lygdamis of Naxos – tyrant of Naxos
• Lygdamus – poet
• Lysander – Spartan general
• Lysanias – philologist
• Lysias – orator
• Lysimachus – Macedonian general
• Lysippus – two; poet, sculptor
• Lysis – two; philosopher, actor
• Lysistratus – sculptor

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