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Greek Male Names - Part 2

A

Agathon - Greek playwright (3)
Agesias - Olympic victor (1)
Agesidamos - Olympic victor (1)
Alkimedon - Olympic victor (1)
Alkimidas - Nemean victor (1)
Amphis - Greek playwright (3)
Anaxagoras - Greek philosopher (3)
Anaxandrides - Greek playwright (3)
Anaxiles - Greek playwright (3)
Anaximander - Greek philosopher (3)
Anaximenes - Greek philosopher (3)
Antiphanes - Greek playwright (3)
Archilochos - 7th century B.C. Greek from Paros (1)
Aristagoras - Nemean victor (1)
Aristokleidas - Nemean victor (1)
Aristomenes - Pythean victor (1)
Arkesilas - Pythean victor (1)
Asopichos - Olympic victor (1)
Astydamas - Greek playwright (3)

C

Chromios - Nemean victor (1)

D

Deinias - Nemean victor (1)
Deinomenes - Father of Hieron (1)
Diagoras - Olympic victor (1)

E

Epharmostos - Olympic victor (1)
Ergoteles - Olympic victor (1)
Eritimos - Relative of Xenophon (1)
Eupolis - Greek playwright (3)

G

Gorgias - Greek philosopher (3)

H

Herodotos - Isthmian victor (1)
Hieron - Tyrant of Syracuse (1)
Hippias - Greek philosopher (3)
Hippokleas - Pythean victor (1)
Hipponax - 6th century B.C. poet (2)

I

Ilas - Trainer of an Olympic champion (1)
Ion - Greek playwright (3)
Iphion - Father of a Nemean champion (1)

K

Kallianax - Ancestor of an Olympic champion (1)
Kallias - Ancestor or relative of a Nemean champion (1)
Kleandros - Isthmian victor (1)
Kleonymos - Ancestor of an Isthmian victor (1)
Kreontidas - Ancestor or relative of a Nemean victor (1)

L

Labdakos - Ancestor of an Isthmian victor (1)
Lampromachos - Relative of an Olympic victor (1)

M

Megakles - Pythean victor (1)
Melesias - Wrestler and trainer of wrestlers (1)
Melissos - Isthmian victor (1)
Menandros - Nemean trainer (1)
Midas - Pythean victor (1)

N

Neophron - Greek playwright (3)
Nikasippos - Choir trainer (1)

O

Orseas - Isthmian trainer (1)

P

Panyassis - Uncle of Herodotos (4)
Parmenides - Greek philosopher (3)
Phalaris - 6th century tyrant (1)
Philemon - Greek playwright (3)
Phintis - Olympic charioteer (1)
Phylakidas - Isthmian victor (1)
Platon - Greek playwright (3)
Protagoras - Greek philosopher (3)
Psaumis - Olympic victor (1)
Ptoiodoros - Relative of an Olympic victor (1)
Pytheas - Explorer, also a Nemean victor (1, 4)

S

Sogenes - Nemean victor (1)
Strepsiadas - Isthmian victor (1)

T

Telesikrates - Pythean victor (1)
Terpsias - Relative of an Olympic victor (1)
Theaios - Nemean victor (1)
Themistios - Grandfather of victors (1)
Theron - Tyrant (1)
Thorax - Patron of a Pythean victor (1)
Thrasyboulos - Relative of a victor (1)
Thrasydaios - Pythean victor (1)
Timasarchos - Nemean victor (1)
Timodamos - Nemean victor (1)

X

Xenokrates - Pythean victor (1)
Xenophanes - 6th century B.C. poet (2)
Xenophon - Olympic victor (1)

Personal Names for Horses

Pherenikos - Hieron's racehorse (1)

Sources:

(1) The Odes of Pindar, by Richard Lattimore, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947, 1976.

(2) Norton Book of Classical Literature, ed. Bernard Knox, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1993.

(3) Classical Drama: Greek and Roman, Meyer Reinhold, Barron Educational Series, Inc., 1959.

(4) Celts and the Classical World, David Rankin, New York: Routledge, 1987, 1996.


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Updated January 9, 2008