What does one mean when speaking of the Greek man? Singularity brings an obstacle due to the diversity of situations, ways of life and the politics along Greek ancient history. Would that be the man from archaic times, the Homer hero, the polites, or the tragic man of the fifth century B.C? Trough the reflexions and researches of both Hellenists, Jean-Pierre Vernant and Marcel Detienne, the (Greek man) is presented in its multiplicity of facets, result of its relations with the divine, the nature, with others and with itself. Along the sixth and fifth centuries before our Era, Greeks developed practices and reflexions about their identity, practices concerned to the construction of an ideal, figured at what authors define as the Equal. Its opposite, the Other, figures the excess. In search for the ideal of behavior and virtue, the Greek man looks for this other within itself; the one who needs to be faced. In both authors readings trough a constructive reflexion, from the man presented in Homer s epic poems to the one subject of the Attic tragedy, we figure out in this study, not the Greek like he used to be, but the one how it appears to be both Hellenists, in this constant come and go fo alterity.