He is considered the first and greatest epic poet of ancient Greece, and the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two of the oldest and most influential works of Western literature.
He was a philosopher and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in the history of philosophy, and his dialogues, which feature his teacher Socrates, explore various topics such as ethics, politics, metaphysics, epistemology, and art.
He was a dramatist and one of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived, along with Aeschylus and Euripides. He wrote over 120 plays, of which seven are extant, including Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Ajax, which are considered masterpieces of Greek drama.
He was a comic playwright and the father of Old Comedy, a genre of satirical and political theater that lampooned the contemporary society, culture, and politics of Athens. He wrote 40 plays, of which 11 are preserved, including The Clouds, The Birds, and Lysistrata, which are still performed and adapted today.
He was a philosopher and a polymath who studied under Plato and tutored Alexander the Great. He is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of all time, and his writings cover a wide range of subjects, such as logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, biology, physics, psychology, rhetoric, and poetics. He is also the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy and the Lyceum, a center of learning in Athens.