Archaic Greece - Important People

Important People

Statesmen
  • Aristomenes
  • Cleisthenes
  • Cleisthenes of Sicyon
  • Cleomenes I
  • Cypselus
  • Draco (lawgiver)
  • Lycurgus (Sparta)
  • Peisistratos (Athens)
  • Periander
  • Pheidon
  • Polycrates
  • Solon
  • Teleclus
  • Theagenes of Megara
  • Theopompus (king of Sparta)
  • Thrasybulus (tyrant)
Epic poets
  • Homeros
  • Hesiodos
Philosophers
  • Anaximandros
  • Anaximenes of Miletus
  • Herakleitos
  • Pythagoras
  • Thales
  • Xenophanes
Lyric poets
  • Alkaios
  • Alkman
  • Anakreon
  • Sappho
  • Stesikhoros
  • Ibykos
  • Simonides of Ceos
  • Korinna
Logographers
  • Kadmos of Miletos
  • Ekataios of Miletos
  • Akusilaos
Fabulists
  • Aisōpos
Sculptors
  • Butades
  • Ageladas
  • Antenor
  • Arkhermos
  • Aristokles
  • Bathykles
  • Bupalos
  • Kanakhos
  • Dipoinos and Skyllis
  • Endoios
  • Hegias of Athens
  • Rhoicos
  • Smilis
  • Theodoros
Painters
  • Aglaophon
  • Exekias
  • Anakles
  • Antidoros
  • Archikles
  • Ergoteles
  • Glaukytes
  • Hermogenes
  • Kaeltes
  • Kleitias
  • Lydos
  • Nearchos
  • Paseas
  • Psiax
  • Sakonides
  • Sikelos
  • Sophilos
  • Sosimos
  • Teisias
  • Xenokles
  • Andokides Painter
  • Apollodros
  • Epiktetos
  • Euthymides
  • Hypsis
  • Makron
  • Pheidippos
  • Phintias
  • Psiax
  • Sikelos
  • Skythes
  • Smikros
Tragic poets
  • Thespis
  • Phrynikhos
  • Khoirilos
  • Pratinas
Comic poets
  • Susarion of Megara (~580 BC)
  • Epikharmos of Kos (~540-450 BC)
  • Cratinus (~520-420 BC), also classical
  • Khionides (also classical) 486 BC

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