1st-century BC Greek writers

1st-century BC Greek historian

1st-century BC Greek historian and teacher

Greek scholar and grammarian (c.63 BC–c.AD 10)

Geminus of Rhodes (), was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, who flourished in the 1st century BC. An astronomy work of his, the Introduction to the Phenomena, still survives; it was intended as an introductory astronomy book for students. He also wrote a work on mathematics, of which only fragments quoted by later authors survive.

ancient Greek geographer

Greek grammarian, rhetorician, and historian

Timagenes () was a Greek writer, historian and teacher of rhetoric. He came from Alexandria, was captured by Romans in 55 BC and taken to Rome, where he was purchased by Faustus Cornelius Sulla, son of Sulla. It is said that Timagenes had a falling-out with emperor Augustus, whereupon he destroyed his writings and fled Rome. He also asked Cleopatra to deliver Mark Antony to Octavianus, or have him put to death.

ancient Greek mythographer

Greek critic and rhetorician during the reign of Augustus

ancient Greek grammarian

ancient Greek rhetorician

ancient Greek philologist

Greek compilator

ancient Greek rhetorician

1st century BC Greek rhetorician

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

Egyptian grammarian

eminent surgeon born at Sidon

agricultural writer of the 1st century BC

physician of Erythrae in Ionia

ancient Greek writer

ancient physician

ancient Greek physician

ancient Greek grammarian