This is a list of most influential Greek authors of antiquity (by alphabetic order):
Aeschines - Rhetorics
Aeschylus - Tragedy
Aesop - Fables
Alcaeus of Mytilene - Lyric Poetry
Alcman - Lyric Poetry
Anacreon - Lyric Poetry
Anaxagoras - Philosophy
Anaximander - Philosophy, Mathematics
Anaximenes - Philosophy, Mathematics
Andocides - Rhetorics
Antiphon - Rhetorics
Apollodorus of Carystus - Comedy
Aristophanes - Comedy
Archimedes - Mathematics, Geometry
Aristotle - Philosophy, Physics, Biology
Aratus - Poetry, Astronomy
Arrian - History
Athanasius of Alexandria - Theology
Bacchylides - Lyric Poetry
Chionides - Comedy
Chrysippus - Philosophy
Claudius Ptolemy - Geography, Astronomy
Clement of Alexandria - Theology, Philosophy
Democritus - Philosophy, Chemistry
Demosthenes - Rhetorics, Politics
Dinarchus - Rhetorics
Dinon - History
Diodorus - History
Diogenes Laërtius - History of Philosophy
Duris of Samos - History
Epicurus - Philosophy
Epimenides of Knossos - Philosophy, Philosophical poetry
Eubulus (poet) - Comedy
Euclid of Megara - Mathematics, Geometry
Euripides - Tragedy
Evagrius Ponticus - Theology
Gorgias - Philosophy
Hegemon of Thasos - Comedy
Heraclitus - Philosophy
Herodotus of Halicarnassus - History
Hesiod - Epic Poetry
Hippocrates of Cos - Medicine
Homer - Epic Poetry
Hypereides - Rhetorics
Iamblichus - Philosophy
Ibycus of Rhegium - Lyric Poetry
Irenaeus - Theology, Philosophy
Isaeus - Rhetorics, Logography
Isocrates - Rhetorics
Justin the Martyr - Theology, Philosophy
Leucippus - Philosophy, Atomism
Lucian - Satire, Rhetoric
Luke the Evangelist - Theology, Medicine, History
Lycurgus of Athens - Rhetorics
Lysias - Logography, Rhetorics
Maximus the Confessor - Theology, Philosophy
Menander - Comedy
Melissus of Samos - Philosophy
Nicomachus of Gerasa - Mathematics
Origen - Theology, Philosophy
Papias of Hierapolis - Theology
Parmenides - Philosophy
Pherecydes of Athens - Mythography, Logography
Philo of Alexandria - Theology, Philosophy
Pindar - Lyrical Poetry
Plato - Philosophy
Plutarch - History, Biography, Philosophy
Posidippus (comic poet) - Comedy
Protagoras - Philosophy
Sappho of Lesbos - Lyric Poetry
Simonides - Lyric Poetry
Solon - Politics, Philosophy
Sophocles - Tragedy
Stesichorus - Lyric Poetry
Strattis - Comedy
Thales of Miletus - Philosophy, Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics
Theocritus - Bucolic poetry
Theognis of Megara - Lyric Poetry
Theopompus - History
Thucydides - History
Xenarchus of Seleucia - Philosophy, Philology
Xenophanes- Philosophy, Theology
Xenophon - History
Zeno of Citium - Philosophy
Zeno of Elea - Philosophy
Further reading
Nisetich, Frank J., Pindar's Victory Songs. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980: translations and extensive introduction, background and critical apparatus. Durant, Will (1926). The Story of Philosophy. Simon & Schuster. . Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, Encounter Books, 2001 The Canadian Museum of Civilization—Greece Secrets of the Past Ancient Greece website from the British Museum Economic history of ancient Greece The Greek currency history Limenoscope, an ancient Greek ports database The Ancient Theatre Archive, Greek and Roman theatre architecture Illustrated Greek History—Dr. Janice Siegel, Department of Classics, Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia Whitmarsh, Tim (2004). Ancient Greek Literature. Cambridge: Polity Press. . Beye, Charles Rowan (1987). Ancient Greek Literature and Society. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. . C. A. Trypanis (1981). Greek Poetry from Homer to Seferis. University of Chicago Press. Anonymous, 1780. The History and Amours of Rhodope. London: Printed for E.M Diemer. John Purkis-The Greek Civilization Greek Lyric II: Anacreon, Anacreontea, Choral Lyric from Olympis to Alcman (Loeb Classical Library) translated by David A. Campbell (June 1989) Harvard University Press (Original Greek with facing page English translations, an excellent starting point for students with a serious interest in ancient lyric poetry.)