Ancient Greek Important People

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  1. 2. an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms
  2. 3. a Greek politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens
  3. 5. ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full
  4. 6. a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought
  5. 7. an Ancient Greek polymath: a mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist
  6. 8. an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy
  7. 11. an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun
  8. 12. an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts
  9. 13. an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician
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  1. 1. an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily.
  2. 2. an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism
  3. 4. a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.
  4. 9. an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC.
  5. 10. a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full