Aristagoras: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by

The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Died	497 BCE

default image

Histiaeus

ruler of Miletus

default image

Ion of Chios

Greek poet

default image

Aristogeiton

Greek tyrannicide

default image

Demetrius of Scepsis

Greek scholar

default image

Nesiotes

Greek sculptor

default image

Philostratus the Younger

Greek author

Marble bust of Aristotle with a beard and draped robe, showing detailed facial features and wavy hair, set against a dark background.

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Socrates

Socrates

Greek philosopher

The Greek philosopher Plato

Plato

Greek philosopher

Homer

Homer

Greek poet

Euripides

Euripides

Greek dramatist

Alexis Tsipras

Alexis Tsipras

prime minister of Greece

Pericles

Pericles

Athenian statesman

Thucydides manuscript

Thucydides

Greek historian

Plutarch

Plutarch

Greek biographer

Sophocles

Sophocles

Greek dramatist

Demosthenes

Demosthenes

Greek statesman and orator

Hear a reading of ancient Greek poet Pindar's first Olympic ode, commissioned by Sicilian prince Hiero

Pindar

Greek poet

default image

Aeschylus

Greek dramatist

Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.

Xenophon

Greek historian