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A number of notables in classical antiquity are named
Demetrius:
- Demetrius, a writer of Old Comedy
ca. 400 BC, mentioned by Diogenes Laertius
- Demetrius of Alopece, sculptor 5th/4th century BC
- Demetrius Phalereus, philosopher and statesman of 4th
century BC
- Demetrius I of Macedon Poliorcetes
(336-283 BC)
- Demetrius the
Fair, son of Poliorcetes
- Demetrius II of Macedon (276-229 BC)
- Demetrius of
Pharos, ruler in Illyria 3rd century BC
- Demetrius I of Bactria
- Demetrius, Indo-Greek king ca 180-165 BC
- Demetrius I of Syria, Seleucid king
- Demetrius II of Syria, his son
- Demetrius of Scepsis, grammarian and
archaeologist 3rd century BC
- Demetrius Ixion,
grammarian 2nd century BC
- Demetrius Lacon,
Epicurean philosopher 2nd century BC
- Demetrius, composed a guide to letter-writing with 21 types and examples of each type
- Demetrius of
Magnesia, writer
- Demetrius,
rhetorical stylist
- Demetrius III of Syria, Seleucid king 1st century
BC
- Demetrius of
Tarsus, grammarian
- Demetrius the Cynic, philosopher 1st century
- Demetrius of Troezen, 1st century
writer on literary history, mentioned by Athenaeus and Diogenes Laertius
Others include:
- St. Demetrius of Alexandria, 2nd/3rd century Christian bishop
- Demetrius of
Antioch, 3rd century Patriarch of Antioch
- St. Demetrius of Salonica, 4th century Christian martyr
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