Talk:List of Greek writers

Ancient period

 * Aeschylus (525–456 BCE), dramatist.
 * Aesop (c.620–560 BCE), writer of fables
 * Antimachus (c.400 BCE), poet
 * Aristophanes (c.446–385 BCE), playwright
 * Dio Chrysostom (c.40–120), orator and first-century historian of the Romans
 * Euripides (c.480–406 BCE), playwright
 * Herodotus (c.485–420 BCE), historian
 * Hesiod (b. c.700 BCE), poet
 * Homer, poet
 * Pindar (522–443 BCE), lyric poet
 * Plutarch (c.46–120), historian and biographer
 * Polybius (c.203–120 BCE), author
 * Sappho (b. c.620 BCE), poet
 * Simonides of Amorgos (7th century BCE), iambic poet
 * Simonides of Ceos (c.556–469 BCE), lyric poet
 * Sophocles (496–406 BCE), Athenian dramatist
 * Thucydides (c.460–400 BCE), historian & Athenian general
 * Xenophon (431-c.360 BCE), Athenian knight and associate of Socrates

Modern period

 * Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933), poet
 * Bob Costas (b. 1952), Greek-American author of books on baseball; better known as a sportscaster
 * Savitri Devi (1905–1982), Graeco-Indian author of books on Esoteric Hitlerism
 * Odysseas Elytis (1911–1996), Nobel Prize winner
 * Yannis Ritsos (1909–1990), poet
 * Arianna Huffington (b. 1950), American author, journalist, and political activist
 * Eftichia Papagianopoulos (1893–1972), lyricist, poet
 * Kostas Karyotakis (1896–1928), poet
 * Nikos Kavvadias (1910–1975), poet
 * Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957), writer
 * Emmanuel Roidis, writer
 * David Sedaris (b.1956), Greek-American essayist
 * Giorgos Seferis (1900–1971), Nobel Prize winner
 * Dionysios Solomos (1798–1857), poet and author of the National Greek anthem
 * Taki, Greek-born British journalist, political commentator
 * Vassilis Vassilikos (b. 1933), author of about 120 books, including Z
 * Titos Patrikios (b.1928) poet
 * Jeffrey Eugenides (b.1960), writer, winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize

(Brought here from List of Greeks for merging into this article. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 22:18, 28 February 2006 (UTC))