Aeschylus

IQ 173

An ancient Greek tragedian

Aesop

IQ 150

Greek moral philosopher; noted for his fabulist storytelling using animal-human figures to convey teachings about ambigu

Akhenaten

IQ 170

A 18th Dynasty pharaoh

Sandro Botticelli

IQ 160

An Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.

Anaxagoras

IQ 180

Ancient Greek philosopher

Anaximander

IQ 180

A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher

Anaximenes of Miletus

An Ancient Greek, Ionian Pre-Socratic philosopher.

Archimedes

IQ 190

A Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.

Aristarchus of Samos

IQ 175

An ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at th

Aristotle

IQ 200

A Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.

Callimachus

IQ 165

Architect and sculptor working in the second half of the 5th century BC.

Cleanthes

A Greek Stoic philosopher and successor to Zeno of Citium as the second head of the Stoic school in Athens.

Democritus

IQ 185

An Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the univ

Demosthenes

IQ 160

His orations

Diagoras of Melos

IQ 155

A Greek poet and sophist of the 5th century BC who allegedly chopped up a wooden statue of Heracles and used it to roast

Diodorus Siculus

IQ 160

A genius historian from ancient Greece known for his universal history work Bibliotheca Historica.

Diogenes Laërtius

IQ 155

A biographer of the Greek philosophers whose works have become the foremost surviving source on the history of Greek phi

Ecphantus the Pythagorean

A shadowy Greek pre-Socratic philosopher who maintained that the Cosmos is made of atoms. His existence is disputed to t

Empedocles

IQ 195

A Greek pre-Socratic philosopher best known for originating the cosmogonic theory of the four classical elements.

Epictetus

IQ 170

A genius Greek Stoic philosopher who taught that philosophy is a way of life and not just a theoretical discipline.

Epicurus

IQ 185

An ancient Greek philosopher and sage who founded the philosophical school of Epicureanism and openly allowed women and

Euclid

A Greek mathematician, often referred to as the founder of geometry. His Elements is one of the most famous works in the

Eudoxus of Cnidus

IQ 170

An ancient Greek astronomer, mathematician, scholar, and student of Archytas and Plato. Some fragments of his work are p

Euripides

IQ 180

A tragedian of classical Athens who is remembered by the plays Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, The Trojan Women, and Bacchae

Evangelos Katsioulis

IQ 198

A psychiatrist and psychotherapist who has the world's highest measured IQ of 205 and is also ranked first in the World

Galen

IQ 170

A Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire.

Heraclitus

IQ 185

An Ancient Greek, pre-Socratic, Ionian philosopher best known for his work On Nature.

Hero of Alexandria

IQ 185

A Greco-Egyptian mathematician and engineer who was active in his native city of Alexandria

Hesiod

IQ 150

An ancient Greek poet widely regarded as the first written poet in the Western tradition.

Hipparchus

IQ 175

A Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician who is considered the founder of trigonometry and discovery of precess

Hippocrates

IQ 175

A Greek physician of Classical Greece, who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine

Homer

IQ 175

Is the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

Leucippus

IQ 180

A philosopher who was the earliest Greek to develop the theory of atomism.

Lycurgus of Sparta

IQ 170

The quasi-legendary lawgiver of Sparta who established the military-oriented reformation of Spartan society

Pherecydes of Syros

IQ 175

A Greek thinker from the island of Syros, who formed a bridge between the mythological thought of Hesiod and pre-Socrati

Phidias

IQ 180

A Greek sculptor, painter, and architect. His Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient Worl

Plato

IQ 180

An Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and th

Polybius

IQ 175

A Greek historian of the Hellenistic period. He is noted for his work The Histories, which covered the period of 264–146

Proclus

Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major classical philosophers

Pyrrho

IQ 170

A Greek philosopher of Classical antiquity and is credited as being the first Greek skeptic philosopher and founder of P

Pythagoras

IQ 180

An ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism

Roger Bacon

IQ 180

A medieval English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empi

Sappho

IQ 165

An Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by a ly

Socrates

IQ 180

A Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as a founder of Western philosophy and the first moral philosopher of th

Solon

IQ 170

An Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, econom

Sophocles

IQ 173

One of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived.

Thales of Miletus

IQ 180

A Greek mathematician, astronomer and pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus.

Theodorus the Atheist

IQ 175

A Greek philosopher of the Cyrenaic school who taught that the goal of life was to obtain joy and avoid grief.

Theon of Alexandria

A Greek scholar and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. He edited and arranged Euclid's Elements and wrote com

Theophrastus

IQ 175

A Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos who was the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school.

Thucydides

An Athenian historian and general known for his account of the ar between Sparta and Athens

Lucretius

IQ 180

On the Nature of Things

Xenophanes

IQ 175

A Greek philosopher, theologian, poet, and critic of religious polytheism.

Xenophon

IQ 160

An Athenian-born military leader, philosopher, and historian.

Zeno of Elea

IQ 155

A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of Magna Graecia best known for his paradoxes.

Heraclides Ponticus

A Greek philosopher and astronomer remembered for proposing that the Earth rotates on its axis.

Plutarch

Greek philosopher and historian c. AD 46 – after AD 119