- Aeschines (c390-c322 BCE)
- Athenian orator
- Prosecuted unsuccessfully by Demosthenes for accepting bribes from Philip II (346/345)
- Served on the Amphictyonic Council (339)
- Prosecuted unsuccessfully by Demosthenes for accepting bribes from Philip II (346/345)
- Agyrrhius (fl. 403-389 BCE)
- Athenian democratic politician
- Associated with public finance and business
- Introduced and later increased payment for attendance at the Assembly
- Associated with public finance and business
- Alcibiades (c450-404 BCE)
- Athenian politician and military leader
- Not trusted by Athenians because of his unscrupulous personal ambition
- Elected strategos and arranged an alliance between Athens and three Peloponnesian states opposed to Sparta (420)
- Not trusted by Athenians because of his unscrupulous personal ambition
- Andocides (c440-c390)
- Attic orator
- Lost civil rights on confessing to the mutilating of the hermes and the profaning of the Eleusian Mysteries (415)
- Eventually regained his rights and was an unsuccessful envoy in negotiating peace with Sparta in the Corinthian War (391)
- Lost civil rights on confessing to the mutilating of the hermes and the profaning of the Eleusian Mysteries (415)
- Androtin (c410-340)
- Athenian politician
- Sent on a embassy to King Mausolus of Caria during the Social War (357-355)
- Served on a committee to prepare war against Persia (355-354)
- Sent on a embassy to King Mausolus of Caria during the Social War (357-355)
- Antiphon (c481-411)
- Attic orator
- Seldom spoke in public, but wrote speeches for others
- Responsible for the oligarchic revolution in Athens and for establishing the Council of the Four Hundred
- Seldom spoke in public, but wrote speeches for others
- Aristides (???-c467)
- Athenian statesman
- Was strategos at the Battle of Marathon (490) and archon (489/488)
- Fixed the tribute to be paid by each member of the Delian League
- Was strategos at the Battle of Marathon (490) and archon (489/488)
- Aristophon (c435-c335)
- Athenian politician
- Was unsuccessfully prosecuted seventy-five times
- Opposed Callistratus over the relationship with Thales and the abandonment of Amphipolis by Athens under the Peace of Philocrates (346)
- Was unsuccessfully prosecuted seventy-five times
- Callias (5th century)
- Athenian politician
- Won the chariot race at Olympia three times
- Negotiated the Peace of Callias (449/448)
- Won the chariot race at Olympia three times
- Callistratus (fl.392/391-361)
- Athenian politician and orator
- Prosecuted the ambassadors who proposed peace with Sparta (391)
- Elected strategos when the Second Athenian League was founded, and organized its finances (378)
- Prosecuted the ambassadors who proposed peace with Sparta (391)
- Charondas (6th century)
- Sicilian lawgiver in western Greek cities
- Laws detailed
- Cimon (c510-c450)
- Athenian statesman and soldier
- Unsuccessfully prosecuted by Pericles for receiving bribes from Alexander I (463)
- Negotiated a five-year peace treaty with Sparta (c451)
- Unsuccessfully prosecuted by Pericles for receiving bribes from Alexander I (463)
- Cleisthenes (c565-c500)
- Athenian statesman
- Generally considered the creator of Athenian democracy, proposing major democratic reforms
- Replaced the four traditional Ionian tribes with a system based on ten tribes
- Generally considered the creator of Athenian democracy, proposing major democratic reforms
- Cleon (???-422)
- Athenian politician
- Proposed that all men of Mythilene should be executed after its revolt (427)
- Opposed peace with Sparta afgter victories at Pylos and Sphacteria (425)
- Proposed that all men of Mythilene should be executed after its revolt (427)
- Cleophon (???-404)
- Athenian politician and lyre maker
- In charge of finances of Athens (410-406), and introduced a dole for poor citizens
- Prevented Athens from making peace with Sparta (410 and 405)
- In charge of finances of Athens (410-406), and introduced a dole for poor citizens
- Demades (c380-319)
- Athenian politician and orator
- Arranged a peace agreement between Athens and macedonia after the Battle of Chaerones (338)
- Made a peace agreement with Antipater after the Macedonian victory at the Battle of Crannon (322)
- Arranged a peace agreement between Athens and macedonia after the Battle of Chaerones (338)
- Demochares (c360-275)
- Athenian orator and democratic politician
- Defended Athens during the Four Years’ar against Cassander (307-304)
- Secured the finances of Athens with financial aid from Macedonia’s enemies
- Defended Athens during the Four Years’ar against Cassander (307-304)
- Demosthenes (384-322)
- Athenian orator
- Became a speechwriter, and noted for his speeches advocating resistance of Philip II of Macedonia
- Arranged an alliance with Thebes against Phillip II, but lost the Battle of Chaeronea (338)
- Became a speechwriter, and noted for his speeches advocating resistance of Philip II of Macedonia
- Diocles (???-c408)
- Syracuse democratic leader
- Changed the constitution to be like that of Athens
- Led the army against Hannibal (409/408)
- Changed the constitution to be like that of Athens
- Draco (fl. c620)
- Athenian lawgiver
- Gave Athens its first written laws
- Many of his laws repealed by Solon because of the severity of the penalties
- Gave Athens its first written laws
- Ephialtes (???-461)
- Athenian statesman
- Replaced Themistocles as the leading democratic politician opposing Cimon
- With the help of Pericles, proposed laws reducing the powers of the Areopagus (42/461)
- Replaced Themistocles as the leading democratic politician opposing Cimon
- Eubulus (c405-c335)
- Athenian politician
- Controlled the finances of Athens, allowing increased spending on public works and shipbuilding
- Advocated a Common Peace of Greek states against Philip II of Macedonia
- Controlled the finances of Athens, allowing increased spending on public works and shipbuilding
- Hegesippus (c390-c325)
- Athenian politician
- Very opposed to Philip II of macedonia, as well as his offer to renegotiate the Peace of Philocrates
- Lycurgus (c390-c325)
- Athenia statesman and orator
- Controlled finances of Athens (338-326), increasing revenue
- Undertook an extensive building program, and enlarged the navy
- Controlled finances of Athens (338-326), increasing revenue
- Megacles (6th century)
- Athenian statesman
- Leader of a political group known as Paraloi
- Nicias (c470-413)
- Athenian general and politician
- Responsible for a year’s truce with Sparta (423), followed by the fifty-year Peace of Nicias (421)
- Appointed one of the generals on a disastrous Sicilian mission
- Responsible for a year’s truce with Sparta (423), followed by the fifty-year Peace of Nicias (421)
- Peisander (fl. 430-411)
- Athenian politician
- Took a leading role in the investigation of the mutilation of the herms (415)
- Supported the pro-Spartan oligarchic revolution (411)
- Took a leading role in the investigation of the mutilation of the herms (415)
- Pericles (c495-429)
- Athenian statesman
- Leader of Athens at the peak of its power
- Led in tranforming the Delian League into an Athenian Empire
- Building commissioner for the Parthenon and the Propylaea
- Responsible for the Athenian strategy in the Peloponnesian War
- Numerous other accomplishments
- Leader of Athens at the peak of its power
- Philocrates (fl. 340s)
- Athenian politician
- Served on several embassies to Philip II of Macedonia
- Philopoemen (252-182)
- Achaean statesman and soldier
- Elected hipparch of the Achaean Confederacy (210/209) and general eight times
- Reorganized the cavalry and the infantry
- Elected hipparch of the Achaean Confederacy (210/209) and general eight times
- Phrynichus (???-411)
- Athenian politician
- One of the extreme oligarchs at the time of the revolution of the Four Hundred (411)
- Pittacus (c650-c570)
- Mytilenean statesman
- Became aisymnetes (dictator) to restore order after a war with Athens (590-580)
- Reformed various laws and banished nobles who opposed him
- Became aisymnetes (dictator) to restore order after a war with Athens (590-580)
- Solon (c640-c561)
- Athenian statesman, lawgiver, and poet
- Instituted various reforms, including ones to help farmers
- Repealed most of the laws of Draco, introducing more humane ones
- Made reforms to the constitution and to the Areopagus
- Instituted various reforms, including ones to help farmers
- Themistocles (c528-c462)
- Athenian democratic leader
- Started the development of the port of Piraeus (493)
- Persuaded the Athenians to increase their naval fleet (483)
- Commanded the fleet in its victory at the Battle of Salamis (480)
- Started the development of the port of Piraeus (493)
- Theramenes (???-404)
- Athenian politician and orator
- One of the leaders of the oligarchic revolution (411)
- Led the peace negotiations with Lysander of Sparta (405)
- Appointed by Lysander as one of the Thirty Tyrants to rule Athens (404)
- One of the leaders of the oligarchic revolution (411)
- Thrasyllus (???-406)
- Athenian democratic leader
- One who organized democratic support in the navy at Samos
- Elected strategos twice (411 and 406)
- One who organized democratic support in the navy at Samos
- Thucydides (c500-c420)
- Athenian politician
- Opponent of Pericles
- Led the wealthy, aristocratic, oligarchic faction
- Opponent of Pericles
- Zaleucus (fl. c650)
- Locri lawgiver
- Produced the first Greek law code
- Produced the first Greek law code
(This page was updated in December 2012.)
