Callimachus

male
Pederastic poetry, Pederasty in ancient Greece, poet, Pinakes, Ptolemy II, Epic poetry…Greekliterature, greek, ancient greek
Callimachus (Greek: ; ca. 305 BC- ca. 240 BC) was a native of Cyrene and claimed to be a descendant of Battus. He was a noted poet, critic, and...
Homer

Homer

male
blind, poet, the odyssey, the iliad, Oral epic poet, Greekliterature
Homer (Greek Hómēros) was a legendary early Greek poet and rhapsode traditionally credited with the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey, co...

Second Sophistic

male
ancient greek, greek, orator, Greekliterature, Lives of the Sophist, Literary movements
The Second Sophistic is a literary-historical term referring to the Greek writers who flourished from the reign of Nero until c.230 AD and who were...
Achilles Tatius

Achilles Tatius

male
Alexandria, novelist, ancient greek, Egyptian, greek, Greekliterature
Achilles Tatius of Alexandria was a Roman era Greek writer whose fame is attached to his only surviving work, the erotic romance "The Adventures of...
Cassius Dio

Cassius Dio

male, 1854 years old
Jornandes, Freculphus, Dion Chrysostomus, Claudius Cassius Dio, Post-Silver Age Latin author, Getica…Greekliterature
Cassius Dio (ca. 155 to 163/164 - after 229), known in English as Cassius Dio, Dio Cassius, possibly Claudius Cassius Dio, or (incorrectly) Cassius...
Stanley Lombardo

Stanley Lombardo

male, 66 years old
Stanley F. Lombardo, loyola university new orleans, University of Kansas faculty, zen, Buddhist, University of Texas at Austin alumni…Greek culture, Greekliterature, greek
Stanley F. Lombardo (b. 1943) is an American professor of Classics at the University of Kansas. He is best known for his translations of the...
Clement Clarke Moore

Clement Clarke Moore

male, deceased (1863)
oriental, Greekliterature, Master's Degree, Columbia University alumni, slaveholder, Academic
Clement Clarke Moore, is best known as the credited author of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" (more commonly known today as "Twas the Night Before...

Harpocration

male
Alexandria, Grammarian, ancient greek, suda, greek, lexicon…Greekliterature
Valerius Harpocration was a Greek grammarian of Alexandria, of unknown date. He is possibly the Harpocration mentioned by Julius Capitolinus ("Life...

Palladas

male
Christian, persona, 4th century, misogyny, Patriarch of Alexandria, in poetry…Greek Anthology, ancient greek, greek, Greekliterature
Palladas (flourished 4th century AD) was a Greek poet, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. All that is known about this poet has been deduced from his...
Pietro Bembo

Pietro Bembo

male, deceased (1547)
poet, From Venice, Catholic cardinal, Beau Ideal, Leo X, Gubbio…Greekliterature, greek
Pietro Bembo (May 20, 1470 - 18 January, 1547), Italian cardinal and scholar. He was born in Venice and while still a boy he accompanied his father...