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Aeschylus |
Author of the Oresteia trilogy of plays |
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Sophocles |
Author of the plays Oedipus rex and Antigone |
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Euripides |
Author of Medea and other tragedies |
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Aristophanes |
Satiric playwright |
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Herodotus |
Historian of the Persian Wars |
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Thucydides |
Historian of the Peloponnesian Wars |
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Thales of Miletus |
Early philosopher who taught that everything is made of water |
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Pythagoras of Samos |
Philosopher who focused on mathematics |
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Democritus of Abdera |
Philosopher who helped originate atomic theory |
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Socrates |
Philosopher who redirected philosophy from natural to moral issues |
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Plato |
Philosopher who wrote the republic |
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Aristotle |
Philosopher who focused on the study of nature |
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Zeno |
Founder of the Stoic school of philosophy |
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Epicurus |
Philosopher who strove for tranquillity |
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Philip II |
King of Macedonia who established dominance over most of Greece |
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Alexander the Great |
King of Macedonia who conquered Persia |
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Darius III |
King of Persia defeated by Alexander the Great |
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Aristarchus |
Astronomer who championed the heliocentric theory of the universe |
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Eratosthenes |
Astronomer who calculated the earth's circumference |
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Ptolemy of Alexandria |
Astronomer whose geocentric model of the universe was accepted for over 1500 years |
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Euclid |
Geometer whose theorems are still taught |
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Archimedes |
The greatest mathematician of antiquity |
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