Talk:List of Greek writers

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[edit] Writers

[edit] Ancient period

• Aeschylus (525–456 BCE), dramatist.
• Aesop (c.620–560 BCE), writer of fables
• Antimachus (c.400 BCE), poet
• Aristophanes (c.446–385 BCE), playwright
• Dio Chrysostom (c.40–120), orator and first-century historian of the Romans
• Euripides (c.480–406 BCE), playwright
• Herodotus (c.485–420 BCE), historian
• Hesiod (b. c.700 BCE), poet
• Homer, poet
• Pindar (522–443 BCE), lyric poet
• Plutarch (c.46–120), historian and biographer
• Polybius (c.203–120 BCE), author
• Sappho (b. c.620 BCE), poet
• Simonides of Amorgos (7th century BCE), iambic poet
• Simonides of Ceos (c.556–469 BCE), lyric poet
• Sophocles (496–406 BCE), Athenian dramatist
• Thucydides (c.460–400 BCE), historian & Athenian general
• Xenophon (431-c.360 BCE), Athenian knight and associate of Socrates

[edit] Modern period

• Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933), poet
• Bob Costas (b. 1952), Greek-American author of books on baseball; better known as a sportscaster
• Savitri Devi (1905–1982), Graeco-Indian author of books on Esoteric Hitlerism
• Odysseas Elytis (1911–1996), Nobel Prize winner
• Yannis Ritsos (1909–1990), poet
• Arianna Huffington (b. 1950), American author, journalist, and political activist
• Eftichia Papagianopoulos (1893–1972), lyricist, poet
• Kostas Karyotakis (1896–1928), poet
• Nikos Kavvadias (1910–1975), poet
• Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957), writer
• Emmanuel Roidis, writer
• David Sedaris (b.1956), Greek-American essayist
• Giorgos Seferis (1900–1971), Nobel Prize winner
• Dionysios Solomos (1798–1857), poet and author of the National Greek anthem
• Taki, Greek-born British journalist, political commentator
• Vassilis Vassilikos (b. 1933), author of about 120 books, including Z
• Titos Patrikios (b.1928) poet
• Jeffrey Eugenides (b.1960), writer, winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize

(Brought here from List of Greeks for merging into this article. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:18, 28 February 2006 (UTC))