Names of people

Question 1

Herodotus

Answer 1

The first historian, father of history, narrated the Persian wars

Question 2

Thucydides

Answer 2

Historian, narrated the Peloponnesian wars, was ostracized instead of Pericles

Question 3

Pericles

Answer 3

A strong Athenian leader, kept getting re-elected because of how good he was, almost ostracized

Question 4

Leonidas

Answer 4

Leader of the Spartan 300

Question 5

Homer

Answer 5

Poet, storyteller, writer of the Iliad and The Odyssey

Question 6

Darius

Answer 6

Former Persian king, father of Xerxes

Question 7

Xerxes

Answer 7

Darius’ successor, lead the Persians in the Persian Wars

Question 8

Agamemnon

Answer 8

King of Mycenae, leader of the Greeks in the Trojan war

Question 9

Priam

Answer 9

King of Troy in the Trojan war

Question 10

Lycurgus

Answer 10

Law giver, established the Spartan education system (about 750-800BCE), where women would exercise, he made communal eating institutions and he also changed the currency

Question 11

Solon

Answer 11

Abolished all debts, made wealth an indication of status as proposed to family lineage, expanded trades, etc.

Question 12

Aristotle

Answer 12

A philosopher, Alexander’s tutor

Question 13

Alexander the great

Answer 13

Phillip’s son, lead the Macedonians to beat the Persians

Question 14

Thales

Answer 14

Pre-socratic philosopher, predicted a solar eclipse

Question 15

Socrates

Answer 15

Big philosopher guy, put on trial and killed for the assumption that he was poisoning the youth’s minds

Question 16

Sapho

Answer 16

Female poet

Question 17

Pisistratus

Answer 17

A tyrant of Athens, the “Golden age”

Question 18

Cleisthenes

Answer 18

An ancient Athenian lawgiver credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athens, made the 10 tribes, paved the way for Democracy in Athens.