Ancient Greek rhetoricians

Protagoras ( ; ; ) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and rhetorical theorist. He is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogue Protagoras, Plato credits him with inventing the role of the professional sophist.

thumb|right|Marble portrait herm (sculpture)|herm identified by an inscription as Aspasia, possibly copied from her grave. Aspasia (after 428 BC) was a metic woman who lived in Classical Athens. Born in Miletus, she moved to Athens and began a relationship with the statesman Pericles. According to the traditional historical narrative, she worked as a courtesan, though modern scholars have questioned the factual basis for this claim, which derives from ancient comedy. Though Aspasia is one of the best-attested women from the Greco-Roman world, and the most important woman in the history of fift

Athenaeus of Naucratis (; or Nαυκράτιος, Athēnaios Naukratitēs or Naukratios; ) was an ancient Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. The Suda says only that he lived in the times of Marcus Aurelius, but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus, who died in 192, implies that he survived that emperor. He was a contemporary of Adrantus.

Libanius (; ) was a teacher of rhetoric of the Sophist school in the Eastern Roman Empire. His prolific writings make him one of the best documented teachers of higher education in the ancient world and a critical source of history of the Greek East during the 4th century AD. During the rise of Christian hegemony in the later Roman Empire, he remained unconverted and in religious matters was a pagan Hellene.

Greek sophist and Roman senator (101–177)

5th century BC Athenian orator

Theopompus (, Theópompos; 380 BC 315 BC) was an ancient Greek historian and rhetorician who was a student of Isocrates.

2nd century Greek rhetorician and author

Syrian/Egyptian Neoplatonist philosopher (c.213–273)

Alcidamas (), of Elaea, in Aeolis, was a Greek sophist and rhetorician, who flourished in the 5th-4th century BC .

2nd century Greek rhetorician and philosopher

4th-century BC Greek rhetorician and historian

1st-century BC Greek rhetorician

2nd century Greek grammarian and sophist

2nd century Greek rhetorician

Nausiphanes (; lived c. 325 BC) was an ancient Greek atomist philosopher from Teos.

Greek grammarian, rhetorician, and historian

5th-century BC Greek rhetorician

ancient Greek rhetorician and historian

Rhetoric tutor of Ptolemy XIII of Egypt (died 43/42 BC)

Androtion (; before 405after 346 BC), was a Greek orator, and one of the leading politicians of his time. He was born between 415 and 405 BC, the son of Andron, who was a member of the Four Hundred and an associate of Theramenes. Androtion was probably Andron's first son, and seems to have inherited his fortune. In the late 390s or early 380s BC, he studied under Isocrates. He may have been the author of a work on agriculture which survives in fragmentary form.

work by Pseudo-Longinus

1st century AD Greek sophist and author

Theodectes (; c. 380c. 340 BC) was a Greek rhetorician and tragic poet, of Phaselis in Lycia.

ancient Greek rhetor

Prohaeresius (, Prohairesios; c. 276 – c. 368) was a fourth-century Armenian Christian teacher and rhetorician originally from Caesarea who taught in Athens. He was one of the leading sophists of the era along with Diophantus the Arab and Epiphanius of Syria.

ancient Greek rhetorician

Apsines of Gadara (; fl. 3rd century AD) was a Greek rhetorician. He was a native of the Hellenised city of Gadara, whose ruins stand today at the border of Jordan with Syria and Israel. Apsines went on to study at Smyrna and taught at Athens, gaining such a reputation that he was raised to the consulship by the emperor Maximinus. He was a rival of Fronto of Emesa, and a friend of Philostratus, the author of the Lives of the Sophists, who praises his wonderful memory and accuracy.

3rd or 4th century Greek rhetorician and commentator

4th/3rd-century BC Greek historian

Greek rhetorician and writer (c. 655 BC–c. 25)

ancient Greek rhetorician

ancient Greek rhetorician

Leptines () was an Athenian orator. He is known as the proposer of a law that no Athenian, whether citizen or resident alien (with the sole exception of the descendants of Harmodius and Aristogeiton), should be exempt from the public charges (leitourgiai) for the state festivals.

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.

Athenian orator

rhetoric teacher, student of Isocrates

1st century BC Greek rhetorician

Greek politician

ancient Greek poet

ancient Greek rhetorician

ancient Greek rhetorician and philosopher

ancient Greek writer

ancient Greek rhetorician

politician

Lesbonax of Mytilene (), a Greek sophist and rhetorician, flourished in the time of Roman emperor Augustus. According to Photius I of Constantinople he was the author of sixteen political speeches, of which two are extant, a hortatory speech after the style of Thucydides, and a speech on the Corinthian War. In the first he exhorts the Athenians against the Spartans, in the second (the title of which is misleading) against the Thebans (edition by F. Kiehr, Lesbonactis sophistae quae supersunt, Leipzig 1906). Some erotic letters are also attributed to him. His son Potamo was also a notable rheto

ancient Greek orator, contemporary of Cicero

ancient Greek statesman and former student of Isocrates

ancient Greek philosopher

3rd-century Greek rhetorician

5th-century BC Athenian orator and statesman

ancient Greek rhetorician and historian

ancient Greek musicologist

ancient Greek rhetorician

ancient Greek rhetorician

Democles (; fl. 4th century BC) was an Athenian orator, and a contemporary of Demochares, among whose opponents he is mentioned.

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