The author of Oedipus the King and Antigone

Author of Medea

contained scenes filled with slapstick situations and crude humor

Wrote the first great comedies of the stage including The Birds of Lysistrata

A notable dramatist who wrote more than 80 plays; Father of Greek tragedy

lover of wisdom

Condemned to death for teaching the youth of Athen to question all things; he said that truth and justice had taught the youth of Athens to question all things; tried for " corrupting the youth of Athens"

A student of Socrates known for his most famous work The Republic.

Student of Plato who invented a method for arguing according to rules of logic.

Sculptor who crafted a giant statue of Athena that not only contained precious materials as gold and ivory, but also stood more than 30 feet tall

Greatest historian of the classical age and author of the Peloponnesian War

Author of the Persian Wars

The first Greak speakers to enter Greece

Large southern peninsula of Greece

What happened during the Daark Ages

Son and successor of Darius the Great who assembled an enormous invasion force to crush Athens.

Believed equality before law (no matter how rich or poor)

Broke up the power of the nobility by creating ten tribes based on location rather than on wealth. Then, he created Council of Five Hundred who proposed laws and counseled the assembly

Outlawed debt slavery, organized all Athenian citizens into 4 social classes according to wealth where only members of the first 3 classes could hold political office.