Unit 4-5: Key People & Groups

King of Macedonia; Eventually conquered all of Greece

• Alexander the Great

• Philip II

• Darius III

• Julius Caesar

Greek philosopher who was sentenced to death for 'corrupting the youth of Athens'

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Socrates

• Epicurus

Divided the Roman Empire in half

• Diocletian

• Constantine

• Augustus

• Nero

Roman Astronomer, astrologer, geographer, mathematician; Made maps.

• Ptolemy

• Aristotle

• Copernicus

• Galileo

Greek philosopher who wrote 'The Republic'

• Aristotle

• Socrates

• Plato

• Epicurus

Greek philosopher who tutored Alexander the Great

• Plato

• Socrates

• Aristotle

• Epicurus

Greek poet; Author of The Iliad and Odyssey

• Homer

• Virgil

• Sappho

• Ovid

Roman Poet who wrote Aeneid

• Ovid

• Horace

• Virgil

• Catullus

General from Carthage that invaded the Italian Peninsula with elephants; nearly defeated the Romans

• Hannibal

• Scipio

• Julius Caesar

• Augustus

First Roman Emperor; Pax Romana began during the reign of this ruler; Julius Caesar’s nephew and adopted son

• Julius Caesar

• Nero

• Octavian (Augustus Caesar)

• Tiberius