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Euhemerus
Euhemerus (; also spelled Euemeros or Evemerus; Euhēmeros, "happy; prosperous"; late fourth century BC) was a Greek mythographer at the court of Cassander, the king of Macedon. Euhemerus' birthplace is disputed, with Messina in Sicily as the most probable location, while others suggest Chios or Tegea.
Scylax of Caryanda
Greek explorer and writer of the late 6th and early 5th centuries BCE
Lesches
Lesches () is a semi-legendary early Greek poet and the reputed author of the Little Iliad. According to the usually accepted tradition, he was a native of Pyrrha in Lesbos, and flourished about 660 BC (others place him about 50 years earlier). Proclus refers to him as "Lesches of Mytilene". Mytilene and Lesbos are names of the same Greek island used interchangeably.
Myrtis of Anthedon
ancient Greek poet
Isidore of Alexandria
philosopher
Onomacritus
Onomacritus (; c. 530 – c. 480 BC), also spelled Onomacritos and Onomakritos, was a Greek chresmologue, or compiler of oracles, who lived at the court of the tyrant Pisistratus in Athens and prepared an edition of the Homeric poems. He was a collector and forger of oracles and poems.
Silanion
thumb|150x150px|Tragic mask in bronze, attributed to Silanion. Archaeological Museum of Piraeus|Museum of Piraeus, [[Athens, Greece.]] thumb|upright|150px|Plato, Roman copy of Silanion's work (Glyptothek|Glyptothek, Munich)
Stasinus
Stasinus () of Cyprus was a semi-legendary early Greek poet. He is best known for his lost work Cypria, which was one of the poems belonging to the Epic Cycle that narrated the War of Troy.
Iambulos
__NOTOC__ Iambulus or Jambulus (, Iamboulos) was an ancient Greek merchant and the likely author of a utopian novel about the strange forms and figures of the inhabitants of the "Islands of the Sun". His name seems not to be Greek and reveals a Semitic or an Arabic origin.
Ariphron
Ariphron (; ) was the name of several people from ancient Greek history:
Hestiaea
Hestiaea of Alexandria, also Hestiaea, was a scholar who wrote a treatise on Homer's Iliad that discussed the question whether the Trojan War was fought near the city then called Ilium, and which was cited by Demetrius of Scepsis. None of her work is extant.
Demosthenes Philalethes
ancient physician
Apollodorus of Gela
ancient Greek poet of New Comedy
Alexander of Myndus
ancient Greek writer
Apollodorus of Tarsus
ancient Greek tragic poet
Alcimus
ancient Greek rhetorician and historian
Dionysius Scytobrachion
ancient Greek rhetorician and mythographer
Amentes
Amentes () was an ancient Greek surgeon, mentioned by Galen as the inventor of some ingenious bandages. Some fragments of the works of a surgeon named Amynias (of which name Amentes is very possibly a corruption) still exist in the manuscript "Collection of Surgical Writers" by Nicetas, and one extract is preserved by Oribasius in the fourth volume of Angelo Mai's collection Classici Auctores e Vaticanis Codicibus. His date is unknown, except that he must have lived in or before the 2nd century AD. He may perhaps be the same person who is said by the Scholiast on Theocritus to have been put to
Aristoxenus
ancient Greek physician
Alexander Philalethes
ancient physician
Andron
physician
Athenaeus the Epigrammatist
ancient Greek epigrammatic poet
Agias
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Apollodorus of Lemnos
ancient writer on agriculture