People

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Homer

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Greek poet; wrote the Iliad and The Odyssey; epic poems reflected the Greeks belief that the gods controlled human lives

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Aesop

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Wrote fables; fables are stories that teach a moral lesson

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Plato

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Founded a school of philosophy called “the academy”; a student of Socrates; interested in the nature of reality

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Archimedes

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Inventor and mathematician; many inventions including the Archimedian screw (for irrigation)

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Aeschylus

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Famous author of Greek tragedies

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Socrates

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Philosopher; the Socratic Method - method of questioning and answering to achieve deeper learning

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Xenophon

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Wrote first known autobiography; believed that the study of history could teach how to live moral lives

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Euripides

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Famous author of Greek tragedies

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Herodotus

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Greek writer called the “father of history” because he asked why certain events happened.

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Aristotle

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The most famous natural philosopher; a great collector and classifier of data; discovered the earth was round

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Pythagoras

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An early Greek mathematician; the Pythagorean Theorem (square numbers)

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Sophocles

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Wrote Greek tragedy “Antigone”

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Thucydides

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Important Greek historian; lived during Peloponnesian war; accurate history

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Thales

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One of the first scientific thinkers; based his answers on observations of nature.

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Hippocrates

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Best-known Greek Doctor; known for Hippocratic oath in which students of medicine promise to use their knowledge only in ethical ways

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Sappho

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Greek poet who wrote about human emotions

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Zeno

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Founded the Stoics, who said divine reason governed the universe. People needed to live in harmony w nature.

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Democritus

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Greek philosopher; said the universe was made up of tiny particles (atoms)

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Euclid

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An important mathematician; geometry book “Elements”