List of ancient Greek writers

This is a list of most influential Greek authors of antiquity (by alphabetic order):


 * 1) Aeschines – Rhetorics
 * 2) Aeschylus – Tragedy
 * 3) Aesop – Fables
 * 4) Alcaeus of Mytilene – Lyric Poetry
 * 5) Alcman – Lyric Poetry
 * 6) Anacreon – Lyric Poetry
 * 7) Anaxagoras – Philosophy
 * 8) Anaximander – Philosophy, Mathematics
 * 9) Anaximenes – Philosophy, Mathematics
 * 10) Andocides – Rhetorics
 * 11) Antiphon – Rhetorics
 * 12) Apollodorus of Carystus – Comedy
 * 13) Aristophanes – Comedy
 * 14) Archimedes – Mathematics, Geometry
 * 15) Aristotle – Philosophy, Physics, Biology
 * 16) Aratus – Poetry, Astronomy
 * 17) Arrian – History
 * 18) Athanasius of Alexandria – Theology
 * 19) Bacchylides – Lyric Poetry
 * 20) Callimachus - Small-scale, personal poetry
 * 21) Chionides – Comedy
 * 22) Chrysippus – Philosophy
 * 23) Claudius Ptolemy – Geography, Astronomy
 * 24) Clement of Alexandria – Theology, Philosophy
 * 25) Democritus – Philosophy, Chemistry
 * 26) Demosthenes – Rhetorics, Politics
 * 27) Dinarchus – Rhetorics
 * 28) Dinon – History
 * 29) Diodorus – History
 * 30) Diogenes Laërtius – History of Philosophy
 * 31) Duris of Samos – History
 * 32) Epicurus – Philosophy
 * 33) Epimenides of Knossos – Philosophy, Philosophical poetry
 * 34) Eubulus (poet) – Comedy
 * 35) Euclid of Megara – Mathematics, Geometry
 * 36) Euripides – Tragedy
 * 37) Evagrius Ponticus – Theology
 * 38) Gorgias – Philosophy
 * 39) Hegemon of Thasos – Comedy
 * 40) Heraclitus – Philosophy
 * 41) Herodotus of Halicarnassus – History
 * 42) Hesiod – Epic Poetry
 * 43) Hippocrates of Cos – Medicine
 * 44) Homer – Epic Poetry
 * 45) Hypereides – Rhetorics
 * 46) Iamblichus – Philosophy
 * 47) Ibycus of Rhegium – Lyric Poetry
 * 48) Irenaeus – Theology, Philosophy
 * 49) Isaeus – Rhetorics, Logography
 * 50) Isocrates – Rhetorics
 * 51) Justin the Martyr – Theology, Philosophy
 * 52) Leucippus – Philosophy, Atomism
 * 53) Lucian – Satire, Rhetoric
 * 54) Luke the Evangelist – Theology, Medicine, History
 * 55) Lycurgus of Athens – Rhetorics
 * 56) Lysias – Logography, Rhetorics
 * 57) Maximus the Confessor – Theology, Philosophy
 * 58) Menander – Comedy
 * 59) Melissus of Samos – Philosophy
 * 60) Nicomachus of Gerasa – Mathematics
 * 61) Origen – Theology, Philosophy
 * 62) Papias of Hierapolis – Theology
 * 63) Parmenides – Philosophy
 * 64) Pherecydes of Athens – Mythography, Logography
 * 65) Philo of Alexandria – Theology, Philosophy
 * 66) Pindar – Lyrical Poetry
 * 67) Plato – Philosophy
 * 68) Plutarch – History, Biography, Philosophy
 * 69) Posidippus (comic poet) – Comedy
 * 70) Protagoras – Philosophy
 * 71) Sappho of Lesbos – Lyric Poetry
 * 72) Simonides – Lyric Poetry
 * 73) Solon – Politics, Philosophy
 * 74) Sophocles – Tragedy
 * 75) Stesichorus – Lyric Poetry
 * 76) Strattis – Comedy
 * 77) Thales of Miletus – Philosophy, Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics
 * 78) Theocritus – Bucolic poetry
 * 79) Theognis of Megara – Lyric Poetry
 * 80) Theopompus – History
 * 81) Thucydides – History
 * 82) Xenarchus of Seleucia – Philosophy, Philology
 * 83) Xenophanes– Philosophy, Theology
 * 84) Xenophon – History
 * 85) Zeno of Citium – Philosophy
 * 86) Zeno of Elea – Philosophy