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Praxiteles
Praxiteles (flourished ca. 370 B.C.–330 B.C.) One of the most skilled and widely admired of the ancient Greek sculptors. Praxiteles,who hailed from Athens, was most famous for his statues of nude people, especially women, having ideal, often heroic physical attributes. … Continue reading
Callicrates
Callicrates aslo read as Kallicrates, was along with Ictinus an architect of the famous Parthenon. He was a renown architect of the ancient Greece, and has lived and created his great works sometime in the 5th century B.C. He is … Continue reading
Phidias
Phidias(ca. 490 B.C.–ca. 425 B.C.) A noted Athenian sculptor, best known for the giant statue of Zeus at Olympia and the magnificent sculptures on the outside and inside of the Parthenon. The great image of Zeus, which sat inside the … Continue reading
Pausanias
Pausanias (flourished ca. A.D. 150 ) The author of one of the most famous and informative guidebooks of antiquity. Possibly hailing from Smyrna in Greek Ionia,Pausanias traveled widely, gathering information for his Description of Greece (or Guide to Greece). The … Continue reading
Herodes Atticus
Herodes Atticus, a great orator and writer of the greek ancient times, was born in Marathon and lived between 101 – 177 AD. He was a part of the Second Sophistic , a trend of thought of the second century … Continue reading
Menander
Menander(ca. 342 B.C.–ca. 292 B.C.) A Greek comic playwright who dominated the theatrical period known as the New Comedy (ca. 320s–ca. 260 B.C.). An Athenian by birth, Menander is credited with writing more than a hundred plays. The only one … Continue reading
Aristophanes
Aristophanes(ca. 445 B.C.–ca. 385 B.C.) The greatest Greek comic playwright of the fifth century B.C. Very little is known about Aristophanes’ personal life, other than that he was born in Athens. A remark in one of his plays hints that he … Continue reading
Euripides
Euripides (ca. 485 B.C.–406 B.C.) One of the leading Athenian playwrights of the fifth-century B.C. and today seen as one of the greatest writers of tragedy in theatrical history. Euripides was not as popular in his own time as his … Continue reading
Sophocles
Sophocles (ca. 496 B.C.–406 B.C.) A noted Athenian dramatist who wrote Oedipus the King, widely viewed as one of the greatest tragedies ever written. He was born in the small Athenian village of Colonus. Ancient writers claim that Sophocles wrote … Continue reading
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Aeschylus
Aeschylus(ca. 525 B.C.–456 B.C.) An Athenian playwriter who has come to be seen as the world’s first great dramatist.Born at Eleusis (site of the goddess Demeter’s temple and mystery cult), Aeschylus fought in the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C., … Continue reading
