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Aeschylus: the only person that created a drama trilogy
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Alexander the Great: kind of Macedonia and expanded the Greek Empire; established the city of Alexandria
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Aphrodite: goddess of beauty, fertility, and love
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Apollo: god of sun and poetry
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Archimedes: worked on the geometry of spheres and cylinders, also established the value of Pi.
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Ares: the god of war
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Aristotle: - a very famous philosopher that didn't except Plato's theory
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Artemis: sister of Apollo; goddess of the moon and the hunt
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Athena: Zeus wife; goddess of wisdom and crafts
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Athenians: people of Athens
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Cleisthenes: another reformer that gained the upper hand
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Croesus and the Delphic Oracles: Croesus is a kind of Lidia. Delphi was a famous oracle
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Darius: a persian ruler
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Draco: a politician who added harsh penalties including slave debts
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Epicurus: the founder of Epicureanism
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Eratosthenes: - determined that the Earth was round and calculated Earth's circumference
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Euclid: wrote a textbook on plane geometry called "Elements
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Euripides: an outstanding Greek dramatist.
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Hades: god of the underworld
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Helots: derived from the word "capture" and they were also captured.
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Herodotus: wrote the history of the Persian war
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Homer: - Homer wrote the Iliad and Odyssey; he was a famous writer
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Ionian, Aeolian and Dorian Greeks: Ionia was in modern day Turkey, Aeolian was in Lesbos, Dorian was in the Peloponnesian
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King minos: built labyrinth and was also the legendary king of Crete
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Laconians: conquered by Sparta, then worked for them.
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leonidas: he led the Athenian army
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Macedonians: the growing power to the north of Greece
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Messenians: conquered by Sparta, then worked for them
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Minoans: Bronze-age people who lived on Crete
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Mycenaean's: Indo European people who spread into Europe and Asia; gained control of Greece
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Pericles: a dominant figure in Athenian politics
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Pheiddippides: an ancient hero of Greece
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Philip II: a king of Macedonia; Alexander's dad
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Polyclitus and the Doryphoros: both major Greek sculptures
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Poseidon: brother of Zeus; god of the sea
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Pythagoras: created the Pythagorean theorem
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Socrates: a sculpture who's true love was philosophy
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Solon: a reform - minded aristocrat
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Sophocles: play writer; "Oedipus Rex"
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Spartans: from Sparta, mainly fought in wars
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Thebeians: people of Thebes who struggle to dominate Greek affairs
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Thermistocles: he led the Athenian navy
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Thucydides: the greatest historian of the greek world
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xerxes: a new Persian monarch who planned to invade Greece
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Zeus: god of Gods and Goddesses