Two famous Ancient Greek were named Euclides (“Euclid” in English):
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Euclid, the mathematician (c. 300 B.C.), the author of the treatise Elements of Geometry. He probably studied in Athens, with students of Plato, and founded a school of Mathematics in Alexandria. Elements of Geometry has been used as a textbook for 2000 years, and even today, with some changes, is the basis for plane geometry text books.
Papir Oxirrinc, Univ. Pennsylvania, c. 100 B.C. contains Proposition V of Book II of the Elements. For more information and a large format photo, click on the image.
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Euclid, the chief magistrate of Athens in the year 403 B.C., a more ancient but less well known figure, held the post after the fall of the thirty-year Peisistratid tyranny at the end of the Peloponnesian war, and re-established the laws of Solon and Draco. He decreed the official change of the Athenian alphabet to the Ionic alphabet of Miletus, in which the laws were recorded in the stoa poikile. Because of the cultural influence of Athens, this form of the Greek alphabet eventually prevailed throughout Greece and is still used today.
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Euclides TGP has been developed to write in this alphabet.
Comparison of the various ancient Greek
alphabets.
Table taken from ancientscripts.com. For more information and a large image,
click on the image.