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1225 Athenian King

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Theseus

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Founded Athens in 1582

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Cecrops

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Last king of Athens

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Codrus

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First Archon of Athens

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Acastas of the Medontid family

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c. 632

Athenian Archon during Cylon’s plot

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Megacles

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c. 620

Athenian Lawgiver

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Draco

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c. 594

Athenian archon who cancelled all debts

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Solon

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

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Pisistratus

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Sons of Pisistratus

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Hippias
Hipparchus
Thessalus

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Gay love triangle

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Hipparchus
Aristogeniton
Harmodius

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

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Themistocles

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Son of Militiades
Athenian leader after Themistocles
Ostracized in 461

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Cimon

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Athenian during Athens’ golden age

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Pericles

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Athenian leader during the Archidamian War

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Cleon the Tanner

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Athenian leader during Peloponnesian war that always wanted peace

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Nicias

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

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Alcibiades

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Leaders of the Rule of Thirty

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Critias and Theramenes

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Leader of the March of Ten Thousand

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Xenophon

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Athenian Naval Commander at Aegospotami

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Conon

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Leader of the 2nd Athenian League

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Callistratus

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Athenian fought at Marathon
Wrote about Salamis
Wrote Persea

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Aeschylus

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Athenian Rival of Demosthenes

Leader with Philocrates of the pro-Macedonian party

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Aeschines

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Athenian prosecutors of Socrates

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Amyntas and Meletus

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Expelled from Athens because taught the sun was not a god

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Anaxagorus

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Athenian orator

Inspired the Revolt of Four Hundred

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Antiphon

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

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Aristides “The Just”

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Athenian poet

Wrote “Clouds”

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Aristophanes

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Athenian student of Plato who founded a school in Lyceum

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Mistress of Pericles

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Athenian fought at Marathon

Made peace between Athens and Persia in 449

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Athenian architects of the Parthenon

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Ictinus and Callicrates

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Athenian commander at Marathon

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Callimachus and Militiades

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Organized the finances of the Athenian League

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Callistratus

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

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

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Euboen mercenary who fought for Athenians and Thracians

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Second founder of Athenian democracy

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Cleisthenes

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Athenian who completed the rebuilding of the Long Walls

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

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Cynegeirus

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Athenian orator who gave 4 speeches against Philip II of Macedon

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Demosthenes

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Spartan traitor at Thermopylae

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Sophist who introduced rhetoric to Greece

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Athenian who managed the Theoric Funds in Athens

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Exiled Athenian tyrant

Assisted Persians at Marathon

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Physician and medical teachers in Athens

Wrote the Hippocratic Oath

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Hippocrates

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Last person ostracized from Athens

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Hyperbolus

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Leaders of the Athenian anti-Macedonian party

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Demosthenes
Hyperides
Lycurgus

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Strict Athenian general who established peltasts

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Iphicrates

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Rivals of Cleisthenes

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

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Leaders of the Expedition to Syracuse

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Nicias
Alcibiades
Lamachus

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Father of Cleisthenes and Hippocrates

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

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Cleon’s rival

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

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Son of Xanthippus

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Pericles sculptor

Made statues of Athena and Zeus out of gold and ivory

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Athenian who ran 26 miles from Marathon

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Pheidippides

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Athenian leaders of the pro-Macedonian party

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Philocrates and Aeschines

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Athenian who wrote the Republic

“The Academy”

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Athenian, First Sophist

“Man is the measure of all things”

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Protagorus

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“The unexamined life is not worth living”

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Athenian, tragic playwright

General and priest of Asclepius

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Athenian who accused Alcibiades of publicly mimicking the Eleusian Mysteries

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