Greek People Flashcards
Aristophanes
Wrote plays such as “Lysistra”
Socrates
Most famous Greek philosopher
Thucydides
Wrote about the peloponnesian wars
Hippocrates
Father of medicine
Euclid
Father of geometry
Leonidas
Spartan King
Pericles
Led Athens through the golden age
Archimedes
Developed calculus and the formula of a circle
Euripides
wrote “Madea” and “Trojan Women”
Sophocles
wrote “Oedipus Rex”
Draco
was a tyrant known for his harsh code of laws
Herodotus
was the “Father of History”
Homer
was the blind poet who wrote “Iliad” and “The Odyssey”
Aeschylus
was the “Father of Tragedy”
Phidias
was the sculptor of all the statuary in the Parthenon and the Statue of Zeus
Pythagoras
developed the formula for the right triangle
Plato
was a student of Socrates and created the Academy at Athens
Solon
was a tyrant who tried to legislate morality
Aristotle
was a student of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
conquered the world by the time he was 33
