Who are some famous people of the Hellenistic period?

Answer 1

Alexander the Great: Main introducer to emerging the Great Hellenistic Golden Age.

Aristotle: Famous Greek scholar in physics, metaphysics, poetry, philosophy, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology.

Zenodotus: The famous grammarian, literary critic, and Homeric scholar, and the first librarian at the Royal Library of Alexandria.

Callimachus: A famous noted poet, critic and scholar of the Royal Library of Alexandria .

Eratosthenes: A famous Greek mathematecian, elegiac poet, athlete, geographer, astronomer, and solving music theorist. Eratosthenes was the founder of scientific chronology.

Apollonius of Rhodes: Famous epic poet, librarian, scholar. Better, famously known for his epic poem the "Agonautica", which told the mythological story of Jason and the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece, and which is one of the chief works in epic poetry.

Archimedes: A greatly famous Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.

Aristophanes of Byzantium: A famous Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly reknown for his work in Homeric sholarship, but also for work on other classical authors such as Pindar and Hesiod.

Olympias: The Greek princess of Epirus, daughter of king Neoptolemus l of Epirus, the fourth wife of the king of Macedonia, King Philip ll and queen mother of Alexander the great.

Cleopatra VII Philopator : Famous Greek Queen and last Pharoah of Egypt.

Demetrius of Phlareum: Famous Athenian orator and politician.

Aristarchus of Samothrace: A Famous Greek grammarian noted as the most influential of all scholars of Homeric poetry. He was main librarian of the Royal Library of Alexandria and succeeded his teacher, Aristophanes of Byzantium, in that role.

Nearchus (Greek: Νέαρχος, Nearchos; c. 360 - 300 BC) was the famous Admiral of the Greek armada fleets, who helped Alexander the Great's army for quick transport during Alexander's missions. His celebrated voyage from India to Susa after Alexander's expedition in India is preserved in the Inddica by Arrian.

Sostratus of Knidos: Famous constructor for building and designing the Pharos of Alexandria "The Great Lighthouse of Alexandria".

Appelles: A Famous renowned early Hellenistic painter of Ancient Greece, famously, painted The Alexander Mosaic.

Epicurus: A highly famous Greek Hellenistic philosopher and the founder of the school of philosophy called "Epicureanism". Only a few fragments and letters remain of Epicurus's 300 written works. Much of what is known about Epicurean philosophy derives from later followers and commentators. He is also famously, one of first to believe the universe is infinite and eternal, and that events in the world are ultimately based on the motions and interactions of atoms moving in empty space.

Zeno of Citium (Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Κιτιεύς, Zēnōn ho Kitieŭs; c. 334 BC - c. 262 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Citium (Greek: Κίτιον), Cyprus. Zeno was the founder of "Stoicism" and founding father of the Stoic school of philosophy, and which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC. Based on the moral ideas of the Cynics, Stoicism laid great emphasis based on goodness and positivity gained from living a life of virtue in accordance with nature

Posidonius: A Famous Greek Stoic philosopher politician, astronomer, geographer and teacher native to Apamea, Syria. He was acclaimed as the greatest polymath of his age. Posidonius is also the founder "Neoplatonism".

Euclid: (pronounced /'ju:klid/ EWL-lid; Ancent Greek: Εὐκλείδης Eukleidēs) also, known as " Euclid of Alexandria", was a famous Greek mathematician; widely known to as the "Father of Geometry".

Chares of Lindos: Famous sculptor who planned and commissioned the Colossus of Rhodes.

Pytheas: was a highly famous Greek geographer, ship navigator, and explorer. Pytheas discovered the Baltics, the Scandinavians, and "Thule" most commonly thought to be the Shetland islands or Iceland.