Pherecrates
An older contemporary of Aristophanes and a writer of Old Comedy along with Cratinu, Eupolis, and Aristophanes.PherecydeS
Greek philosopher from about 600-550 B.C., said to have been the first prose writer. Wrote a cosmogonia and theogonia.Phiale
Flat, Greek drinking cup.
Phidias
Famous Greek artist, born about 500 B.C., at Athens, who worked on the Parthenon and was responsible for the statue of Zeus on the Acropolis. Friend of Pericles'.Philemon (Poet)
Greek poet of New Attic Comedy, born about 362 B.C.Philemon (Myth)
With Baucis, a Phrygian couple that treated the disguised Zeus and Hermes hospitably. As a reward, they were saved from the great flood.Philetas
Greek grammarian and poet, from Cos, from the fourth century B.C.Philippides
Greek author of New Comedy, from about 300 B.C.Philiscus
Greek tragedian from Corcyra, in the first half of the third century B.C. One of the Pleiad of Alexandrian tragic poets.Philistus
Greek historian from Syracuse, born c. 435 B.C.Philo1
Sculptor, son of Antipater.Philo2
Athenian architect, from c. 318 B.C.Philo of Byzantium
From Byzantium in the second century B.C. He wrote on mechanics.Philo of Larissa
From Larissa. A pupil of Clitomachus, philosopher who fled to Rome from the imminent siege of Athens during the Mithridatic Wars, in 88 B.C.Philo the Jew
Philo the Jew was born c. 25 B.C., in Alexandria. He is the chief representatice of Greco-Judaic philosophy.Philo Byblius
Philo Byblius was a Roman grammarian who lived from the reign of Nero to that of Hadrian.Philochorus
Greek historian at Athens between 306 and 260 B.C.Philocles
Greek tragedian and the son of Aeschylus' sister.Philoctetes
He inherited Hercules' bow and arrows, was abandoned by Odysseus at Lemnon, slew Paris, and was one of the few Greeks who came back home from the Trojan War.Philodemus
An Epicurean philosopher and esteemed contemporary of Cicero.Philolaus
Greek philosopher, pupil and transcriber of Pythagoras who wrote in Doric Greek.Philostratus
Greek sophist from Lemnos, in the mid third century A.D.Philoxenus
From Cythera, this Greek dithyrambic poet died in 380 B.C.Phineus1
Son of Beleus, he contested with Perseus for his betrothed Andromeda and lost by being turned to stone.Phineus2
Son of Agenor, a prophet.Phlegon
Greek writer and freedman of Hadrian.
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