Ancient Greek mythographers

Greek historian and geographer (c.550–c.476 BC)

Euhemerus (; also spelled Euemeros or Evemerus; Euhēmeros, "happy; prosperous"; late fourth century BC) was a Greek mythographer at the court of Cassander, the king of Macedon. Euhemerus' birthplace is disputed, with Messina in Sicily as the most probable location, while others suggest Chios or Tegea.

Greek grammarian who lived between the 1st and 3rd centuries

ancient Greek poet

Acusilaus, Acusilas, Acousileos, or Akousilaos () of Argos, son of Cabas or Scabras, was a Greek logographer and mythographer who lived in the latter half of the 6th century BC but whose work survives only in fragments and summaries of individual points. He is one of the authors (= FGrHist 2) whose fragments were collected in Felix Jacoby's Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker.

Greek author (c. 64 – 141)

ancient Greek writer

2nd-century AD Greek writer

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.

Onomacritus (; c. 530 – c. 480 BC), also spelled Onomacritos and Onomakritos, was a Greek chresmologue, or compiler of oracles, who lived at the court of the tyrant Pisistratus in Athens and prepared an edition of the Homeric poems. He was a collector and forger of oracles and poems.

ancient Greek mythographer

Herodorus (), also called Herodorus of Heraclea () was a native of Heraclea Pontica and wrote a history on Heracles around 400 BC. Plutarch references Herodorus several times in his account of Theseus in Parallel Lives. He is among the authors (= FGrHist 31) whose fragments were collected in Felix Jacoby's Fragmente der griechischen Historiker.

ancient Greek writer and historian

ancient Greek mythographer

Agriopas was a writer of ancient Greece mentioned by Pliny the Elder. He was the author of an account of the Olympic victors, called the Olympionicae. His exact date of birth is unknown.

Greek writer

Hellenistic writer on mythology

ancient Greek rhetorician and mythographer

Boios (Βοῖος), Latinized Boeus, was a Greek grammarian and mythographer, remembered chiefly as the author of a lost work on the transformations of mythic figures into birds, his Ornithogonia. Ornithogonia was translated into Latin by Aemilius Macer, a friend of Ovid, who was the author of the most familiar such collections of metamorphoses. In the 2nd century CE, Antoninus Liberalis gave extremely brief summaries of the contents of some of the myths collected in Ornithogonia.

ancient Greek historian

2nd-century BC Greek writer

Acestorides () is the name of several people from Classical history: