List of Thracian Greeks
This is a list of ancient Greeks in Thrace
Ancient
Artists
- Brygos Attic Painter/Potter (possibly of Thracian origin)[1]
- Athenion of Maroneia Painter
- Boethus of Chalcedon Sculptor
Athletes
- _of Maroneia Pale Greek Wrestling Olympics 476 BC[2]
Grammarians
- Aristarchus of Samothrace
- Aristophanes of Byzantium
- Dionysius Thrax
Historians
- Thucydides
- Hecataeus of Abdera
- Stephanus of Byzantium
- Hieronymus of Cardia
Mathematicians
- Bion of Abdera
- Philo of Byzantium
- Epigenes of Byzantium
Mythic Lovers
- Hero and Leander
Philosophers
- Leucippus
- Protagoras
- Diogenes Apolloniates
- Thrasymachus
- Democritus
- Xenocrates
- Anaxarchus
- Hecataeus of Abdera
- Hipparchia of Maroneia
- Metrocles
- Antisthenes of Athens
Physicians
Poets
- Nicaenetus of Samos
- Sotades of Maroneia
- Phaedimus of Bisanthe
Rulers-Politicians
- Miltiades the Elder
- Miltiades
- Cimon
- Themistocles
- Cleophon (politician)
- Thucydides
- Nymphodorus of Abdera
- Python of Aenus
- Heraclides of Aenus
- Eumenes
- Lysimachus
- Agathocles (son of Lysimachus)
Hellenized Thracians
- Dolonci (Δόλογγες)
- Abrotonum
- Hegesipyle of Olorus
- Olorus
- List of rulers of Bithynia
Cities
Aegean Thrace
In order from west to east:
- Stryme
- Abdera
- Ismaros
- Maroneia
- Samothrace
- Aenus
- Lysimachia
Thracian Chersonese
- Abydos, Hellespont
- Alopeconnesus
- Aegospotami
- Callipolis
- Cardia
- Elaeus
- Sestus
Propontis
Bosporus
Pontus Euxinus
In order from north to south:
- Histria
- Tomi
- Callatis
- Dionysopolis or Krounoi
- Odessos or Odessopolis
- Naulochos
- Mesembria
- Anchialos
- Apollonia
- Agathopolis
References
- ^ Paul Kretschmer. Die Griechischen Vaseninschriften ihrer Sprache nach untersucht.
- ^ Miller, Stephen Gaylord (1991). Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources. University of California Press. p. 86. ISBN 0-520-07509-9.
External links
- Map of Greek Colonies in Thrace
