List of ancient Greek historians
The entries in this list of ancient Greek historians span the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman-era, and Byzantine periods.
Archaic Greece
Classical Greece
Hellenistic Greece
- Abydenus
- Aesopus (historian)
- Agatharchides
- Agathocles (writers)
- Alexander Polyhistor
- Anticlides
- Antipater
- Antisthenes of Rhodes
- Aratus of Sicyon
- Artapanus of Alexandria
- Berossus
- Callixenus of Rhodes
- Cleitarchus
- Craterus (historian)
- Ctesicles
- Deinias of Argos
- Demetrius the Chronographer
- Diyllus
- Duris of Samos
- Euphantus
- Eupolemus
- Hecataeus of Abdera
- Hegesander (historian)
- Hegesias of Magnesia
- Hippobotus
- Jason of Cyrene
- Leon of Pella
- Manetho
- Marsyas of Pella
- Marsyas of Philippi
- Menander of Ephesus
- Neanthes of Cyzicus
- Nicander
- Paeon of Amathus
- Palaephatus
- Philinus of Agrigentum
- Philochorus
- Philostephanus
- Phylarchus
- Polybius
- Posidonius
- Satyrus the Peripatetic
- Sosicrates
- Theopompus
- Timaeus (historian)
Roman Greece
- Gaius Acilius
- Acesander
- Alexander Lychnus
- Alexander Polyhistor
- Appian
- Arrian
- Zarmanochegas
- Caecilius of Calacte
- Callinicus (Sophist)
- Castor of Rhodes
- Dio Chrysostom
- Lucius Cincius Alimentus
- Criton of Heraclea
- Criton of Pieria
- Dexippus
- Cassius Dio
- Diocles of Peparethus
- Diodorus Siculus
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus
- Ephorus the Younger
- Herodian
- Hypsicrates (historian)
- Josephus
- Sextus Julius Africanus
- Memnon of Heraclea
- Nicias of Nicaea
- Nicolaus of Damascus
- Pamphile of Epidaurus
- Philo of Byblos
- Plutarch
- Polyaenus
- Polybius
- Posidonius
- Gaius Asinius Quadratus
- Strabo
- Thallus (historian)
- Theophanes of Mytilene