Ancient Greek ambassadors

Aeschines (; Greek: ; 389314 BC) was a Greek statesman and one of the ten Attic orators.

Megasthenes ( ; , died 290 BCE) was an ancient Greek historian, indologist, diplomat, ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period. He described India in his book Indica, which is now lost, but has been partially reconstructed from literary fragments found in later authors that quoted his work. Megasthenes was the first person from the Western world to leave a written description of India.

thumb|The Choice of Hercules, by Annibale Carracci, depicting the fable recounted by Prodicus Prodicus of Ceos (; , Pródikos ho Keios; c. 465 BC – c. 395 BC) was a Greek philosopher, and part of the first generation of Sophists. He came to Athens as ambassador from Ceos, and became known as a speaker and a teacher. Plato treats him with greater respect than the other sophists, and in several of the Platonic dialogues Socrates appears as the friend of Prodicus. One writer claims Socrates used his method of instruction. Prodicus made linguistics and ethics prominent in his curriculum. The conten

thumb|Sculpture of Phocion, by François-Nicolas Delaistre, 1824. Phocion (; Phokion; c. 402 – c. 318 BC), nicknamed The Good ( ), was an Athenian statesman and strategos, and the subject of one of Plutarch's Parallel Lives.

5th-century BC Greek statesman, soldier and diplomat

thumb|Inscription in honor of Abdashtart I|Straton, King of Sidon, giving him the title of proxenos: "Also Straton the king of Sidon shall be proxenos of the People of Athens, both himself and his descendants". [[Acropolis of Athens. This indicates that relations of proxeny existed not only among Greek cities but also with non-Greeks (Phoenicians in this case).]] thumb|Bronze plaque with inscription appointing an Athenian citizen to Proxenos, from Palaeopolis in ancient Corcyra, Greece, 4th Century BC, British Museum Proxeny or ' () in ancient Greece was an arrangement whereby a citizen (chose

(4th century BC) a Rhodian Greek opposed to Sparta

younger son of Philip V of Macedon

Greek epigrammatist and ambassador in Rome

Roman philosopher and diplomat

Pyrilampes () was an ancient Athenian politician and stepfather of the philosopher Plato. His dates of birth and death are unknown, but Debra Nails estimates he must have been born after 480 BC and died before 413 BC.

Cappadocian assassin and ambassador

ancient Greek olympian

4th-century BC Macedonian nobleman and official

Autocles (; lived 4th century BC) of Euonymeia, son of Strombichides, was one of the Athenian envoys empowered to negotiate peace with Sparta in 371 BC. Xenophon reports a somewhat injudicious speech of his, which was delivered on this occasion before the congress at Sparta, and which by no means confirms the character, ascribed to him in the same passage, of a skilful orator. It was perhaps this same Autocles who, in 362, was appointed to the command in Thrace, and was brought to trial for having caused, by his inactivity there, the triumph of Cotys over the rebel Miltocythes. Aristotle refer

Pantites (; died 470s BC) was a Spartan warrior, one of the Three Hundred sent to the Battle of Thermopylae. King Leonidas I ordered Pantites on an embassy to Thessaly, possibly to recruit allies for the coming battle. However, Pantites failed to return to Thermopylae in time for the battle, arriving after all of his fellow soldiers had been killed. When he returned to Sparta, he was shunned as a "trembler" and made an outcast. Unable to live with his disgrace, he hanged himself.

ambassador (3rd c. BCE)

Indo-Greek ambassador

thumb|right|Intaglio portrait on a ring, possibly of Echedemos (circa 220 BC). Echedemos (; fl. 190 BC) was a Greek statesman of ancient Athens.