Athenaeus

male
thratta, in the times of Marcus, Suidas, Essayist, ancient greek, Book XIII
Athenaeus, of Naucratis in Egypt, Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourished about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century A.D....

Zenodotus

male
Grammarian, librarian, ancient greek, Educator, Ptolemaic dynasty, suda…Suidas
Zenodotus, Greek grammarian, literary critic, and scholar on Homer; first librarian of the Library of Alexandria; pupil of Philetas of Cos; a...

Chaeremon

male
poet, Ancient Athenian, ancient greek, Playwright, athenian, dramatist…Suidas
Chaeremon was an Athenian dramatist of the first half of the fourth century BCE. He is generally considered a tragic poet. Aristotle (Rhetoric,...

Palaephatus

male
writer, ancient greek, Suidas
Palaephatus is the name of four literary persons in Suidas, who, however, seems to have confounded different persons and writings.

Pratinas

male
from Peloponnese, Suidas, ancient greek, Playwright, tragedy, arion
Pratinas was one of the earliest tragic poets of Athens, he was a native of Phlius in Peloponnesus. About 500 BC he competed with Choerilus and...
Cassius Dio

Cassius Dio

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

Sophron

suda, Syracuse, Isthmiazousai, De Sophrone et Xenarcho mimographis, Doric Greek, De Graecae Linguae Dialectis…Suidas
Sophron, of Syracuse, writer of mimes, flourished about 430 BC. He was the author of prose dialogues in the Doric dialect, containing both male and...

Choerilus

male
poet, Grammarian, Ancient Athenian, ancient greek, Playwright, athenian…Suidas
Choerilus was an Athenian tragic poet, who exhibited plays as early as 524 BC. He was said to have competed with Aeschylus, Pratinas and even...

Rhianus

male
Alexandria, ancient greek, epigram, slave, slavery, crete…Suidas
Rhianus was a Greek poet and grammarian, a native of Crete, friend and contemporary of Eratosthenes (275 BC-195 BC). Suidas says he was at first a...

Tyrtaeus

male
Orat, Tyrtaios, suda, Ancient Spartans, oral, sparta…Suidas
Tyrtaeus (also "Tyrtaios", Greek:) was a Greek elegiac poet who lived at Sparta about the middle of the 7th century BC. According to the older...