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Leonidas (d.480 BCE), Spartan king, killed defending Greece from the Persians Bust of Leonidas I, famed king of Sparta who led his troops at the Battle of Thermopylae against a Persian invasion of the Greek city states, perhaps most famous for having told the Persian King Xerxes his "Molon labe", or "Come and take them", when ordered to ...
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
Bias of Priene, one of the Seven Sages of Greece; Bion; Bion the Borysthenite; Biton of Syracuse; Boethus – several people, including Boethus of Chalcedon (c. 2nd century BCE) – sculptor; Boethus of Sidon (Stoic) (fl. 2nd century BCE) – Stoic philosopher; Boethus of Sidon (Peripatetic) (c. 75 BCE – c. 10 BCE) – Peripatetic philosopher ...
The study of ancient Greek personal names is a branch of onomastics, the study of names, [1] and more specifically of anthroponomastics, the study of names of persons.There are hundreds of thousands and even millions of individuals whose Greek name are on record; they are thus an important resource for any general study of naming, as well as for the study of ancient Greece itself.
Abydenus; Aesopus (historian) Agatharchides; Agathocles (writers) Alexander Polyhistor; Anticlides; Antipater; Antisthenes of Rhodes; Aratus of Sicyon; Artapanus of Alexandria
Calchas (Κάλχας), a powerful Greek prophet and omen reader, who guided the Greeks through the war with his predictions. Diomedes (Διομήδης, also called "Tydides"), the youngest of the Achaean commanders, famous for wounding two gods, Aphrodite and Ares. Helen (Ἑλένη) the wife of Menelaus, the King of Sparta. Paris visits ...
Ancient Greek philosophy began in Miletus with the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales [1] [2] and lasted through Late Antiquity. Some of the most famous and influential philosophers of all time were from the ancient Greek world, including Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. ↵Abbreviations used in this list: c. = circa; fl. = flourished
Greek name Etruscan name Notes Achilles: Achle, Achile [1] Legendary hero of the Trojan War: Actaeon: Ataiun [2] Admetus: Atmite [3] Adonis: Atunis [3] Agamemnon: Achmemrun [1] Legendary king of Mycenaean Greece: Aitolos: Etule: Confused with his brother, Epeios, who built the Trojan horse [4] Ajax, son of Telamon Ajax, son of Oileus: Aivas ...