Greek People Flashcards
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Aristophanes
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Wrote plays such as “Lysistra”
2
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Socrates
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Most famous Greek philosopher
3
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Thucydides
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Wrote about the peloponnesian wars
4
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Hippocrates
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Father of medicine
5
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Euclid
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Father of geometry
6
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Leonidas
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Spartan King
7
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Pericles
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Led Athens through the golden age
8
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Archimedes
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Developed calculus and the formula of a circle
9
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Euripides
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wrote “Madea” and “Trojan Women”
10
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Sophocles
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wrote “Oedipus Rex”
11
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Draco
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was a tyrant known for his harsh code of laws
12
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Herodotus
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was the “Father of History”
13
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Homer
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was the blind poet who wrote “Iliad” and “The Odyssey”
14
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Aeschylus
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was the “Father of Tragedy”
15
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Phidias
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was the sculptor of all the statuary in the Parthenon and the Statue of Zeus
