People

Question 1

Founded Athens in 1582

Answer 1

Cecrops

Question 2

Last king of Athens

Answer 2

Codrus

Question 3

First Archon of Athens

Answer 3

Acastas of the Medontid family

Question 4

c. 632

Athenian Archon during Cylon’s plot

Answer 4

Megacles

Question 5

c. 620

Athenian Lawgiver

Answer 5

Draco

Question 6

c. 594

Athenian archon who cancelled all debts

Answer 6

Solon

Question 7

556-527
Athenian Tyrant
Leader of the hill party
Brought a large women named Phye to Athens and called her Athena

Answer 7

Pisistratus

Question 8

Sons of Pisistratus

Answer 8

Hippias
Hipparchus
Thessalus

Question 9

Gay love triangle

Answer 9

Hipparchus
Aristogeniton
Harmodius

Question 10

Athenian leader during Persian Wars
Responsible for building Athenian navy
Ostracized in 471

Answer 10

Themistocles

Question 11

Son of Militiades
Athenian leader after Themistocles
Ostracized in 461

Answer 11

Cimon

Question 12

Athenian during Athens’ golden age

Answer 12

Pericles

Question 13

Athenian leader during the Archidamian War

Answer 13

Cleon the Tanner

Question 14

Athenian leader during Peloponnesian war that always wanted peace

Answer 14

Nicias

Question 15

Athenian leader in the Peloponnesian War
Elected strategos 420
Socrates saved his life at Delium

Answer 15

Alcibiades

Question 16

Leaders of the Rule of Thirty

Answer 16

Critias and Theramenes

Question 17

Leader of the March of Ten Thousand

Answer 17

Xenophon

Question 18

Athenian Naval Commander at Aegospotami

Answer 18

Conon

Question 19

Leader of the 2nd Athenian League

Answer 19

Callistratus

Question 20

Athenian fought at Marathon
Wrote about Salamis
Wrote Persea

Answer 20

Aeschylus

Question 21

Athenian Rival of Demosthenes

Leader with Philocrates of the pro-Macedonian party

Answer 21

Aeschines

Question 22

Athenian prosecutors of Socrates

Answer 22

Amyntas and Meletus

Question 23

Expelled from Athens because taught the sun was not a god

Answer 23

Anaxagorus

Question 24

Athenian orator

Inspired the Revolt of Four Hundred

Answer 24

Antiphon

Question 25

Athenian decided how much was contributed to Apollo's temple at Delos

Answer 25

Aristides "The Just"

Question 26

Athenian poet | Wrote "Clouds"

Answer 26

Aristophanes

Question 27

Athenian student of Plato who founded a school in Lyceum

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Aristotle

Question 28

Mistress of Pericles

Answer 28

Aspasia

Question 29

Athenian fought at Marathon | Made peace between Athens and Persia in 449

Answer 29

Callias

Question 30

Athenian architects of the Parthenon

Answer 30

Ictinus and Callicrates

Question 31

Athenian commander at Marathon

Answer 31

Callimachus and Militiades

Question 32

Organized the finances of the Athenian League

Answer 32

Callistratus

Question 33

Son of Militiades who brought back the bones of Theseus to Athens Opposed Themistocles Arranged 5 years peace with Sparta

Answer 33

Cimon

Question 34

Athenian who accused Timotheus, Iphicrates, and all Athenian generals of deliberate treachery

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Chares

Question 35

Euboen mercenary who fought for Athenians and Thracians

Answer 35

Chardimus

Question 36

Second founder of Athenian democracy

Answer 36

Cleisthenes

Question 37

Athenian who completed the rebuilding of the Long Walls

Answer 37

Conon

Question 38

Athenian, brother of Aeschylus who died at Marathon while trying to seize a Persian ship by the stern

Answer 38

Cynegeirus

Question 39

Athenian orator who gave 4 speeches against Philip II of Macedon

Answer 39

Demosthenes

Question 40

Spartan traitor at Thermopylae

Answer 40

Ephialtes

Question 41

Sophist who introduced rhetoric to Greece

Answer 41

Gorgias

Question 42

Athenian who managed the Theoric Funds in Athens

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Eubulus

Question 43

Exiled Athenian tyrant | Assisted Persians at Marathon

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Hippias

Question 44

Physician and medical teachers in Athens | Wrote the Hippocratic Oath

Answer 44

Hippocrates

Question 45

Last person ostracized from Athens

Answer 45

Hyperbolus

Question 46

Leaders of the Athenian anti-Macedonian party

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Demosthenes Hyperides Lycurgus

Question 47

Strict Athenian general who established peltasts

Answer 47

Iphicrates

Question 48

Rivals of Cleisthenes

Answer 48

Isagorus

Question 49

Orator who urged Greek not to fight amongst themselves but as one united people

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Isocrates

Question 50

Leaders of the Expedition to Syracuse

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Nicias Alcibiades Lamachus

Question 51

Father of Cleisthenes and Hippocrates

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Megacles

Question 52

Athenian employed by Pisistratus to collect and edit the oracles of Musaeus by the court of Pisistratus

Answer 52

Nalios

Question 53

Cleon's rival

Answer 53

Nicias

Question 54

Athenian general who was ordered by Cleon to massacre the people of Mytilene

Answer 54

Packes

Question 55

Son of Xanthippus

Answer 55

Pericles

Question 56

Pericles sculptor | Made statues of Athena and Zeus out of gold and ivory

Answer 56

Phidias

Question 57

Athenian who ran 26 miles from Marathon

Answer 57

Pheidippides

Question 58

Athenian leaders of the pro-Macedonian party

Answer 58

Philocrates and Aeschines

Question 59

Athenian who wrote the Republic | "The Academy"

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Plato

Question 60

Athenian, First Sophist | "Man is the measure of all things"

Answer 60

Protagorus

Question 61

"The unexamined life is not worth living"

Answer 61

Socrates

Question 62

Athenian, tragic playwright | General and priest of Asclepius

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Sophocles

Question 63

Athenian who accused Alcibiades of publicly mimicking the Eleusian Mysteries

Answer 63

Andocides

Question 64

1225 Athenian King

Answer 64

Theseus