Fifth century writers Herodotus (484 – c. 425 B.C.) was an historian and is called the father of history. Aristophanes (c. 446 B.C. – c. 388 B.C.) is our surviving representative of Old Comedy. Sophocles (c. 495 - 406 B.C.), Aeschylus (c. 525–456 B.C.), and Euripides (c. 480 B.C.–406 B.C.) are the three great Greek tragedians. Fourth century writer Plato (428/427 – 348/347 B.C.) and his teacher Socrates, who did not write, were philosophers.
A group portrait of Herodotus, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Plato, Euripides, and Socrates.
Herodotus, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Plato, Euripides, and Socrates
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