Ancient Ephesians

Heraclitus (; ; ) was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. He exerts a wide influence on Western philosophy, both ancient and modern, through the works of such authors as Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Martin Heidegger.

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story in Christian folklore and the Qur'an

thumb|200px|Hipponax from Guillaume Rouillé's Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum (1553) Hipponax (; ; gen. Ἱππώνακτος; ), of Ephesus and later Clazomenae, was an Ancient Greek iambic poet who composed verses depicting the vulgar side of life in Ionian society. He was celebrated by ancient authors for his malicious wit, especially for his attacks on some contemporary sculptors, Bupalus and Athenis. Hipponax was reputed to be physically deformed, which might have been inspired by the nature of his poetry.

Zenodotus () was a Greek grammarian, literary critic, Homeric scholar, and the first librarian of the Library of Alexandria. A native of Ephesus and a pupil of Philitas of Cos, he lived during the reigns of the first two Ptolemies, and was at the height of his reputation about 280 BC.

Greek professional diviner (2nd century)

Callinus (, Kallinos; fl. mid-7th c. BC) was an ancient Greek elegiac poet who lived in the city of Ephesus in Asia Minor in the mid-7th century BC. His poetry is representative of the genre of martial exhortation elegy in which Tyrtaeus also specialized and which both Archilochus and Mimnermus appear to have composed. Along with these poets, all his near contemporaries, Callinus was considered the inventor of the elegiac couplet by some ancient critics.

1st/2nd century AD Greek physician

Late 5th/early 4th-century BC Greek painter

ancient Greek geographer

Sosipatra () was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher and mystic who lived in Ephesus and Pergamon in the first half of the 4th century AF. The story of her life is told in Eunapius' Lives of the Sophists.

Neoplatonist philosopher

late 1st and early 2nd century Greek physician

ancient Greek historian

1st/2nd century Roman senator and suffect consul

Late 2nd/early 3rd century Greek eccelesiastical writer

son of Menophilus, Ephesian sculptor

ancient Greek poet

ancient Greek writer

bishop of Ephesus

Ephesian epic poet attached to the court of the kings of Pergamon

Greek sophist and rhetorician during the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius