Ancient Parians

Archilochus (; Arkhílokhos; 680 – c. 645 BC) was an iambic poet of the Archaic period from the island of Paros. He is celebrated for his versatile and innovative use of poetic meters, and is the earliest known Greek author to compose almost entirely on the theme of his own emotions and experiences.

thumb|Head of the goddess Hygieia by Scopas from the temple of [[Athena Alea at Tegea (National Archaeological Museum of Athens)]] Scopas (; born in Paros, fl. 4th century BC) was an ancient Greek sculptor and architect, most famous for his statue of Meleager, the copper statue of Aphrodite, and the head of goddess Hygieia, daughter of Asclepius.

Agoracritus ( Agorákritos; ; fl. late 5th century BC) was a famous sculptor in ancient Greece.

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.

Euenus (or Evenus) of Paros, (), was a 5th-century BC poet who was roughly contemporary with Socrates.

Thymaridas of Paros (; c. 400 – c. 350 BCE) was an ancient Greek mathematician and Pythagorean noted for his work on prime numbers and simultaneous linear equations.

Neobule (, Neoboúlē,  "New Decision" or "Ms. Fickle") was a girl addressed in the 7th-century BC Greek poetry of Archilochus. Archilochus claims to have been engaged to the girl before her father Lycambes ("Mr. Wolfy") reneged and married her to someone else. Archilochus's verses on the topic were so bitter that Neobule, her father, and her sisters were said to have all hanged themselves. These poems are generally agreed to be the origins of satire. Some modern scholars believe that Lycambes, Neobule, and her sisters were not actually the poet's contemporaries but stock characters fr

Thrasymedes of Paros () was an ancient Greek sculptor. Formerly, he was regarded as a pupil of Phidias because he set up in the temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus a seated chryselephantine sculpture of that deity, which was evidently a copy of the Statue of Zeus at Olympia by Phidias. An inscription found at Epidaurus yet proves that the temple and the statue belong to the 4th century BCE.