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Greek Writers Timeline

Chronological list of writers of Ancient Greece

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Homer

Homer

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Homer (9th-8th centuries B.C.)

Hesiod (8th-7th centuries B.C.)

Alcaeus (7th century B.C.)

Sappho (7th century B.C.)

Archilochus (7th century B.C.)

Callinus (7th century B.C.)

Tyrtaeus (7th century B.C.)

Solon (7th century B.C.)

Semonides (7th century B.C.)

Alcman (7th century B.C.)

Stesichorus (7th century B.C.)

Mimnermus (7th century B.C.)

Aesop (620?-560? B.C.)

Thales (c. 600 B.C.)

Anacreon (fl. 550 B.C.)

Theognis (fl. 544 B.C.)

Hipponax (6th century B.C.)

Ibycus (6th century B.C.)

Simonides (b. 557/6 B.C.)

Thespis (c. 535 B.C.)

Aeschylus (524?-456 B.C.)

Pindar (518?-438? B.C.)

Bacchylides (b. c518 B.C.)

Hecataeus (fl. 500 B.C.)

Sophocles (c. 496-406 B.C.)

Euripides (c. 485-406 B.C.)

Socrates (469?-399 B.C.)

Lysias (458-380 B.C.)

Aristophanes (c. 450-c. 385 B.C.)

Plato (429-347 B.C.)

Herodotus (fl. 450-428 B.C.)

Thucydides (fl. 430-399 B.C.)

Xenophon (430-354 B.C.)

Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.)

Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

Diphilus (4th C B.C.)

Menander (c.342- c.292 B.C.)



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