The entries in this list of ancient Greek historians span the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman-era, and Byzantine periods.
Archaic Greece
Acusilaus Amelesagoras Cadmus of Miletus Hecataeus of Miletus Hellanicus of Lesbos Pherecydes of Athens Stesimbrotos of Thasos Xanthus (historian)
Classical Greece
Antiochus of Syracuse Callisthenes Cratippus of Athens Ctesias Dinon Duris of Samos Ephorus Eudemus of Rhodes Hellanicus of Lesbos Heracleides of Cyme Herodotus Philistus Theopompus Thucydides Xenophon Hellenica Oxyrhynchia
Hellenistic Greece
Abydenus Aesopus (historian) Agatharchides Agathocles (writers) Alexander Polyhistor Anticlides Antipater Antisthenes of Rhodes Aratus of Sicyon Artapanus of Alexandria Berossus Callixenus of Rhodes Cleitarchus Craterus (historian) Ctesicles Deinias of Argos Demetrius the Chronographer Diyllus Duris of Samos Euphantus Eupolemus Hecataeus of Abdera Hegesander (historian) Hegesias of Magnesia Hippobotus Jason of Cyrene Leon of Pella Manetho Marsyas of Pella Marsyas of Philippi Menander of Ephesus Neanthes of Cyzicus Nicander Paeon of Amathus Palaephatus Philinus of Agrigentum Philochorus Philostephanus Phylarchus Polybius Posidonius Satyrus the Peripatetic Sosicrates Theopompus Timaeus (historian)
Roman Greece
Gaius Acilius Acesander Alexander Lychnus Alexander Polyhistor Appian Arrian Zarmanochegas Caecilius of Calacte Callinicus (Sophist) Castor of Rhodes Dio Chrysostom Lucius Cincius Alimentus Criton of Heraclea Criton of Pieria Dexippus Cassius Dio Diocles of Peparethus Diodorus Siculus Dionysius of Halicarnassus Ephorus the Younger Herodian Hypsicrates (historian) Josephus Sextus Julius Africanus Memnon of Heraclea Nicias of Nicaea Nicolaus of Damascus Pamphile of Epidaurus Philo of Byblos Plutarch Polyaenus Polybius Posidonius Gaius Asinius Quadratus Strabo Thallus (historian) Theophanes of Mytilene
Byzantine Empire
Procopius Eusebius (Chronicon) Jerome (Chronicon) Agathias