Important Ancient Greeks

Son of Philip II of Macedonia; Tutored by Aristotle; Conquered the Persian Empire and expanded the Greek Empire to its greatest size, never losing a battle.

• Alexander the Great

• Leonidas

• Solon

• Pericles

• Odysseus

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Renowned orator, politician, general, and patron of the arts. Built the Parthenon; led during the "Golden Age of Athens".

• Pericles

• Alexander the Great

• Socrates

• Leonidas

• Plato

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King of Sparta; Died defending Greece at the Battle of Thermopylae

• Leonidas

• Solon

• Agamemnon

• Cleisthenes

• Pericles

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Poet, politician, and the first democratically-elected "Archon" of Athens. Granted democratic rights to citizens; Ended bonded slavery in Athens.

• Solon

• Pericles

• Cleisthenes

• Hippias

• Demosthenes

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"Father" of Athenian democracy. Wrote democratic constitution of Athens; also convinced Spartans to elect their "king". Established "ostracism", where citizens could be banished based on popular vote.

• Cleisthenes

• Pericles

• Solon

• Hippias

• Demosthenes

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Statesman; considered the greatest orator of Greek times. Helped prevent the Macedonians from conquering Athens until Alexander, then helped to prevent uprisings during Alexander's reign.

• Demosthenes

• Pericles

• Socrates

• Leonidas

• Draco

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Son of Hippocrates. Known for favoring the common people of Athens, he established the Pan-Athenian Games and tried to produce definitive versions of Homer's epics.

• Pisistratus

• Pericles

• Cassander

• Demetrius

• Demosthenes

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First known legislator of Athens; remembered for his extremely harsh code of laws that greatly favored the upper classes. Eventually driven out of Athens and exiled.

• Draco

• Solon

• Leonidas

• Pisistratus

• Hippias

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Greatest mathematician of antiquity. Anticipated modern calculus and analysis. Wrote many theorems, including the area of a circle and the surface area and volume of a sphere. Inventions involving leverage and buoyancy. Died at the Siege of Syracuse, despite orders to spare his life.

• Archimedes

• Euclid

• Pythagoras

• Aristotle

• Plato

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Astronomer and mathematician; estimated distance between Earth and the Sun, suspected that stars were other bodies like the Sun, just farther away. Presented the first known heliocentric model of the universe.

• Aristarchus

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Ptolemy

• Anaxagoras

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