Category
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Dionysius the Areopagite
Greek bishop and saint
Antiphon
ancient Athenian philosopher
Musaeus of Athens
legendary ancient poet and musician
Palaephatus
Palaephatus (Ancient Greek: ) was the author of a rationalizing text on Greek mythology, the paradoxographical work On Incredible Things (; ), which survives in a (probably corrupt) Byzantine edition.
Douris
5th-century BC Greek vase painter and potter
Meletus
Meletus (; fl. 5th–4th century BCE), a citizen of Athens in the Classical Era, came from the Pithus deme and has become known for his prosecuting role in the trial - and eventual execution - of the philosopher Socrates in 399 BCE.

Megacles
Megacles or Megakles () was the name of several notable men of ancient Athens, as well as an officer of Pyrrhus of Epirus.
==The first eponymous archon==
The first Megacles that appears was legendary archon of Athens from 922 BC to 892 BC.
Demochares
Demochares (; 322), nephew of Demosthenes, Athenian orator and statesman, was one of the few distinguished Athenians in the period of decline.
Calippus of Syracuse
tyrant of Syracuse from 354 to 352 BC
Makron
ancient Greek vase painter (5./6. century BCE)
Hedylus
Hedylus (, Hḗdylos; fl. 3rd century BC) was a Greek epigrammatic poet of the Hellenistic period.
Dipylon Master
ancient Greek attic geometric vase painter
Polygnotos
ancient Greek vase painter
Alcmaeon of Athens
Athenian archon
Phintias
Late 6th century BC Athenian red-figure vase-painter
Narcissus of Athens
1st century Roman Christian saint and bishop
Antiochis
The name Antiochis () is the female name of Antiochus.
Pistoxenos Painter
ancient Greek vase painter
Dioxippus
Dioxippus () was an ancient Greek athlete, renowned for his Olympic victories in the sport of pankration. His fame and skill were such that he was crowned Olympic champion by default in 336 BC when no other pankratiast dared meet him on the field. This kind of victory was called "akoniti" (literally: without getting dusted). The most famous story of Dioxippus is his victory over Coragus of the Macedonian army.
Ariphron
Ariphron (; ) was the name of several people from ancient Greek history:
Polus
Polus (Greek: Πῶλος, "colt"; fl. c. 5th century BCE) was an ancient Greek philosophical figure best remembered for his depiction in the writing of Plato. He was a pupil of the famous orator Gorgias, and teacher of oratory from the city of Acragas, Sicily.
Tellus of Athens
proverbially blessed ancient Athenian
Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes
late 1st/early 2nd century Greco-Roman senator and consul
Diosphos Painter
ancient Attic-Greek vase-painter of black-figure and white-ground styles
Pamphos
Pamphos Ancient Greek () is an Athenian poet, allegedly a contemporary of Linus of Thrace, inventor of the ialémos. Two purported short fragments of his poems survive.
Philotas
ancient Greek musician
Menexenus
Menexenus (; ) was one of the three sons of Socrates and Xanthippe. His two brothers were Lamprocles and Sophroniscus. Menexenus is not to be confused with the character of the same name who appears in Plato's dialogues Menexenus and Lysis. Socrates' sons Menexenus and Sophroniscus were still children at the time of their father's trial and death, one of them small enough to be held in his mother's arms. According to Aristotle, Socrates' descendants all turned out to be unremarkable "fools and dullards".
Lamprus of Athens
ancient Greek musician
Echetlus
thumb|Echetlus fighting with the plow on an Etruscan funerary urn
Eurymedon of Myrrhinus
husband of Plato's sister, Potone
Asclepiodorus
Greek painter
Aristomenes
Athenian poet of Old Comedy
Penthesilea Painter
Greek vase painter (c. 5. century BCE)

Ephippus of Athens
Athenian poet of Middle Comedy
Phaeax
5th-century BC Athenian orator and statesman
Metagenes
ancient Greek architect in Eleusis
On the Murder of Eratosthenes
speech by Lysias
Scironides
Scironides (; born mid-5th century BC – died after 411 BC) was an Athenian naval commander.
Apsines the Younger
son of Onasimus and son of the previous
Diocles
mythical Megarean ruler of Eleusis
Epilycus
Epilycus () was an Athenian comic poet of the Old Comedy. He is mentioned by an ancient grammarian in connection with Aristophanes and Philyllius. Of his play Kôraliskos, a few fragments are preserved.