This is a list of most influential Greek authors of antiquity (by alphabetic order):

1. Aeschines – Rhetorics
2. Aeschylus – Tragedy
3. Aesop – Fables
4. Alcaeus of Mytilene – Lyric Poetry
5. Alcman – Lyric Poetry
6. Anacreon – Lyric Poetry
7. Anaxagoras – Philosophy
8. Anaximander – Philosophy, Mathematics
9. Anaximenes – Philosophy, Mathematics
10. Andocides – Rhetorics
11. Antiphon – Rhetorics
12. Apollodorus of Carystus – Comedy
13. Aristophanes – Comedy
14. Archimedes – Mathematics, Geometry
15. Aristotle – Philosophy, Physics, Biology
16. Aratus – Poetry, Astronomy
17. Arrian – History
18. Athanasius of Alexandria – Theology
19. Bacchylides – Lyric Poetry
20. Chionides – Comedy
21. Chrysippus – Philosophy
22. Claudius Ptolemy – Geography, Astronomy
23. Clement of Alexandria – Theology, Philosophy
24. Democritus – Philosophy, Chemistry
25. Demosthenes – Rhetorics, Politics
26. Dinarchus – Rhetorics
27. Dinon – History
28. Diodorus – History
29. Diogenes Laërtius – History of Philosophy
30. Duris of Samos – History
31. Epicurus – Philosophy
32. Epimenides of Knossos – Philosophy, Philosophical poetry
33. Eubulus (poet) – Comedy
34. Euclid of Megara – Mathematics, Geometry
35. Euripides – Tragedy
36. Evagrius Ponticus – Theology
37. Gorgias – Philosophy
38. Hegemon of Thasos – Comedy
39. Heraclitus – Philosophy
40. Herodotus of Halicarnassus – History
41. Hesiod – Epic Poetry
42. Hippocrates of Cos – Medicine
43. Homer – Epic Poetry
44. Hypereides – Rhetorics
45. Iamblichus – Philosophy
46. Ibycus of Rhegium – Lyric Poetry
47. Irenaeus – Theology, Philosophy
48. Isaeus – Rhetorics, Logography
49. Isocrates – Rhetorics
50. Justin the Martyr – Theology, Philosophy
51. Leucippus – Philosophy, Atomism
52. Lucian – Satire, Rhetoric
53. Luke the Evangelist – Theology, Medicine, History
54. Lycurgus of Athens – Rhetorics
55. Lysias – Logography, Rhetorics
56. Maximus the Confessor – Theology, Philosophy
57. Menander – Comedy
58. Melissus of Samos – Philosophy
59. Nicomachus of Gerasa – Mathematics
60. Origen – Theology, Philosophy
61. Papias of Hierapolis – Theology
62. Parmenides – Philosophy
63. Pherecydes of Athens – Mythography, Logography
64. Philo of Alexandria – Theology, Philosophy
65. Pindar – Lyrical Poetry
66. Plato – Philosophy
67. Plutarch – History, Biography, Philosophy
68. Posidippus (comic poet) – Comedy
69. Protagoras – Philosophy
70. Sappho of Lesbos – Lyric Poetry
71. Simonides – Lyric Poetry
72. Solon – Politics, Philosophy
73. Sophocles – Tragedy
74. Stesichorus – Lyric Poetry
75. Strattis – Comedy
76. Thales of Miletus – Philosophy, Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics
77. Theocritus – Bucolic poetry
78. Theognis of Megara – Lyric Poetry
79. Theopompus – History
80. Thucydides – History
81. Xenarchus of Seleucia – Philosophy, Philology
82. Xenophanes– Philosophy, Theology
83. Xenophon – History
84. Zeno of Citium – Philosophy
85. Zeno of Elea – Philosophy