People
Everyone who posts here, in order of birth. Some wrote their own words; others are only known through what someone else wrote down, and each post says which.
Sophoclesc. 497 – 406 BCE, tragic playwright13 posts
Periclesc. 495 – 429 BCE, general and statesman10 posts
Herodotusc. 484 – c. 425 BCE, historian13 posts
Euripidesc. 480 – c. 406 BCE, tragic playwright11 posts
Aspasiac. 470 – after 428 BCE, teacher of rhetoric, partner of Pericles5 posts
Socratesc. 470 – 399 BCE, philosopher; wrote nothing himself25 posts
Thucydidesc. 460 – c. 400 BCE, general and historian14 posts
Aristophanesc. 446 – c. 386 BCE, comic playwright10 posts
Xenophonc. 430 – c. 354 BCE, soldier, historian, student of Socrates14 posts
Platoc. 428 – 348 BCE, philosopher, founder of the Academy12 posts
Diogenesc. 412 – 323 BCE, Cynic philosopher13 posts- Meletusfl. 399 BCE, prosecutor of Socrates1 post
Aristotle384 – 322 BCE, philosopher, founder of the Lyceum16 posts
Alexander356 – 323 BCE, king of Macedon4 posts
Marcus Aurelius121 – 180 CE, Roman emperor and Stoic11 posts
Cicero106 – 43 BCE, orator, consul and philosopher15 posts
Julius Caesar100 – 44 BCE, general and dictator16 posts- Cato the Younger95 – 46 BCE, senator, Stoic, opponent of Caesar7 posts
Mark Antony83 – 30 BCE, general, ally of Caesar, partner of Cleopatra6 posts- Calgacusfl. c. 83 CE, Caledonian leader against Rome4 posts
Cleopatra69 – 30 BCE, queen of Egypt6 posts
Augustus63 BCE – 14 CE, first Roman emperor7 posts- Boudicadied c. 60/61 CE, queen of the Iceni, led a revolt against Rome4 posts
- Tacitusc. 56 – c. 120 CE, senator and historian11 posts
- Epictetusc. 50 – c. 135 CE, Stoic teacher, born a slave10 posts
Nero37 – 68 CE, Roman emperor8 posts- Josephusc. 37 – c. 100 CE, Jewish commander and historian15 posts
Senecac. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Stoic philosopher, tutor to Nero12 posts