Accius - Lucius Accius (170 - c. 86 B.C.) - playwright
Achaeus (b. c. 484 B.C.) - from Eretria tragedian
Aeschylus (525 - 456/455 B.C.) - from Athens - tragedian
Agathon (b. c. 446 B.C.) - from Athens - tragedian
Alcaeus (late 7th century - mid 6th century B.C.) - from Lesbos - poet
Alcman (late 7th century B.C.) - from Sparta - poet
Amafinius - C. Amafinius - Roman Epicurean philosopher
Anacreon (c 570 B.C.)- from Teos - poet
Anaxagoras (c 500 B.C.) - from Clazomenae near Smyrna - sciensits
Anaximander (611 - 546 B.C.) - scientist
Anyte of Tegea (4th century or 3rd century B.C.) - from Tegea in the Peloponnese - poet
Apollonius of Rhodes (c 295 - 215 B.C.) - epic poet
Aratus of Soli (3rd century B.C.?) - from Alexandria?
Archilochus (c 648 B.C.) - from Paros - poet
Aristarchus (c 310 B.C.) - from Samos - scientist
Aristarchus (5th century B.C.) - from Tegea - tragedian
Aristophanes (455? - 385 B.C.) - from Athens - playwright - Old Comedy Period
Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) - philosopher and scientist
Asclepiades (b. c. 320 B.C.) - from Samos
Astydamas (4th century B.C.) - Greek tragedian
Axionicus - writer of Middle Comedy
Bacchylides (6th century - 5th century B.C.) - from Ceos - poet
Bilama - Babylonian ruler
Caesar - Gaius Julius Caesar (102 or 100 - 44 B.C.) - politican, historian, writer
Callimachus (310 - 240 B.C.) - from Cyrene - cataloger and poet
Carcinus (4th century B.C.) - tragedian
Cassius Dionysius - from Utica - translator
Cato the Elder - M. Porcius Cato (234 - 149 B.C.) - politican and orator
Catullus - C. Valerius Catullus (c 87 or 84 - 54 B.C.) - from Verona - poet
Celsus - A. Cornelius Celsus - writer and doctor
Chaeremon (4th century B.C.) - tragedian
Charon of Carthage - author
Choerilus of Athens (c 523 - 468 B.C.) - tragedian
Cicero - M. Tullius Cicero (106 - 43 B.C.) - from Arpinum - orator and politician
Claudius - Tiberius Claudius Drusus (10 B.C. - 54 A.D.) - Emperor and historian
Columella - Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (c 5 B.C. - 60 A.D.) - from Cadiz, Spain - soldier and writer
Corinna (5th century B.C.) - from Thebes or Tanagra - poet
Cotta (c 75 B.C.) - orator
Crates of Mallos (2nd century B.C.) - from Mallos - Greek stoic philosopher and author
Cratinus (c 490 - 420 B.C.) - from Athens - writer of Old Comedy
Ctesias (in the court of Artaxerxes Mnemon, 415 - 398 B.C.) - from Cnidos - physician and writer
Demosthenes - orator
Diodorus Siculus (1st century B.C.)
Dionysius of Halicarnassus (c. 8 B.C.) - from Halicarnassus - critic and historian
Diphilus of Sinope (c 340 - 289 B.C.) - writer of New Comedy
Ennius - Quintus Ennius (239 - 169 B.C.) - from Rudiae in Calabria - playwright and poet
Ephorus (c. 375 B.C.) - historian
Epicurus (340 - 271 B.C.) - from Athens - philosopher
Erasistratus - doctor
Eratosthenes (c. 250 or 230 - 196 B.C.) - from Cyrene - geographer
Erinna (4th century B.C.?) - poet
Eupolis (c.445 - 410 B.C.) - from Athens - writer (Old Comedy period)
Euripides (485 - 406 B.C.) - born at Salamis - from Athens - tragedian
Fabius - Q. Fabius Pictor (c.202 B.C.) - historian
Flaccus - Marcus Verrius Flaccus (late 1st century B.C.) - writer
Hammurabi - Babylonian ruler
Hecataeus (c. 500 B.C.) - from Miletus - historian
Heraclides of Pontus (388 - 315 B.C.) - scientist and philosopher
Hermippus of Smyrna
Herodotus (490 - c. 425 B.C.) - from Halicarnassus - historian
Hieronymus (3rd century B.C.) - from Cardia - writer
Himilco (6th century B.C.?) - from Carthage - admiral and explorer
Hipparchus of Nicaea (active 161 - 126 B.C.) - from Nicaea in Bithynia - scientist
Hippocrates - doctor
Horace - Q. Horatius Flaccus (65 - 8 B.C.) - from Venusia in Apulia - poet
Hortalus - Q. Hortensius Hortalus (c 69 B.C.) - orator
Hyperides - orator
Ibycus (6th century B.C.) - poet
Ion of Chios (c 490 - 420 B.C.) - tragedian
Isocrates - writer
Kidinnu - Babylonian astronomer
Livius Andronicus - Lucius Livius Andronicus (died c. 200 B.C.) - from Tarentum - playwright and poet
Livy - T. Livius (59 B.C. - 17 A.D.) - from Patavium (Padua) - historian
Lucan - M. Annaeus Lucanus (39 - 65 A.D.) - nephew of Seneca - writer
Lucretius - T. Lucretius Carus (c 94 - 55 B.C.) - poet
Mago of Carthage
Manetho
Marinus (1st century B.C.)
Menander (342 - 292/291 B.C.) - from Athens - comic writer
Menandros of Ephesus - historian
Metellus (d. 221 B.C.)
Moschion (4th century B.C.) - tragedian