Persuasion in Ancient Greece

Andrew Scholtz, Instructor

Informational Pages. . .

Author Timeline

BCE
Homer	ca. 700	Greek epic poet: Iliad, Odyssey.
Hesiod	ca. 700	Boeotian (Greece), epic.
Alcman	2nd half seventh cent.	Lyric poet from Sparta.
Sappho	born ca. 612	Woman lyric poet from the Aegean island of Lesbos.
Anaximander	early to mid 500s	Philosopher from the Asian (i.e., in modern Turkey) city of Miletus.
Ibycus	flourished ca. 550	Greek lyric poet.
Theognis	flourished ca. 540 (??)	Elegiac poet from Megara (near Athens). Actually, the poetry in the collection associated with his name probably comes from several different poets who would have lived about 640-479 BCE.
Anacreon	born ca. 570	From Teos (Greek island); lyric poet.
Simonides	ca. 556-468	Greek lyric poet.
Acusilaus of Argos	born before the Persian wars (490-479)	Genealogist.
Heraclitus	flourished ca. 500	Philosopher from Miletus (Asia Minor).
Alcmaeon of Croton	early 400s	Italian Greek physician and philosopher.
Aeschylus	525/4-456	Athenian tragic poet.
Pindar	518-438	Boeotian (Greek) lyric poet
Sophocles	496-406	Athenian tragic poet.
Herodotus	ca. 495-ca. 430	Halicarnassian (Asia Minor), historian
Empedocles	ca. 494-ca. 433	Sicilian Greek philosopher and poet
Pherecydes of Athens	ca. 456	Genealogist, mythographer.
Euripides	ca. 485-ca. 406	Athenian tragic poet.
Gorgias	483-376	Sicilian Greek, sophist.
Critias:	ca. 480-403	Student of Socrates; antidemocrat and oligarch.
Archelaus of Athens	active mid 400s	Athenian philosopher; teacher of Socrates.
Democritus	born 460-457	Greek philosopher.
Antiphon Sophist	later fifth cent.	Athenian sophist, speech writer.
Lysias	ca. 459-ca. 380	Resident of Athens, orator and speech writer.
Aristophanes	ca. 450-on or before 385	Athenian comic poet.
Protagoras	flourished 2nd half 400s	Sophist from Abdera in Thrace.
pseudo- Xenophon	late fifth cent.	Author of the sophistic Constitution of the Athenians.
Eupolis	late 400s	Athenian comic poet.
Antiphon	late 400s	Athenian sophist, speech writer, and rhetoric teacher.
Antisthenes	ca. 445-ca. 360	Athenian Cynic philosopher
Archippus	ca. 400	Comic playwright.
Isocrates	436-338	Athenian orator.
Xenophon	ca. 428/7-ca. 354	Athenian soldier of fortune, author.
Plato	429-347	Athenian philosopher.
Isaeus	ca. 420-350	Athenian law speech writer.
Aristotle	384-322	From Stagira in northeastern Greece, philosopher.
Demosthenes	384-322	Athenian politician and orator.
Alexis	ca. 375-ca. 275	Comic poet at Athens
Philemon	368/360-267/63	Athenian comic poet.
Menander	342/1-293	Athenian comic poet.
Zeno of Citium	335-263	Stoic philosopher at Athens.
Theocritus	ca. 300-ca. 260 (?)	Poet (Greek) at Alexandria.
Chrysippus	280-207	Stoic philosopher at Athens
Apollodorus of Athens	born ca. 180	Writer on various topics.
Sosicrates	flourished mid 2nd cent.	Author of a history of Crete.
Nicander	2nd cent.	Of Colophon (Greek city in Asia Minor): Writer/poet on various topics.
CE
Pliny the Elder	23/24-79	Roman author of Natural History (in Latin)
Plutarch	before 45-after 120	Boeotian (Greek) biographer, moral philosopher
Pausanias	flourished ca. 150	Greek traveler writer.
Clement of Alexandria	born ca. 150	Author of the Miscellanies
Athenaeus	late 2nd cent.	Author (Greek) of The Sophists at Dinner (collection of miscellanies); from Naukratis in Egypt.
pseudo- Apollodorus	1st or 2nd cent.	Greek mythographer.
Proclus	410/412-485	Greek Neoplatonist philosopher.
Weber, Max	1864-1920	German economist, political scientist, sociologist; author of Economy and Society.
Michels, Robert.	1876-1936	German sociologist, student of Max weber. Perhaps best known for his theory of the "iron law of oligarchy."
Vološinov, Valentin	1895-1936	Theorist of language; associated with Bakhtin.
Bakhtin, Mikhail	1895-1975	Theorist of language and the novel; associated with Vološinov.
Finley, Moses	1912-1918	Ancient historian.
Dahl, Robert	b. 1915	Political scientist, theorist of democracy.
Ober, Josiah.	PhD 1980	Classicist, historian, political scientist.

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