Greek Names

3. ran 26 miles from the town of Marathon to Athens to announce the Greek victory in a decisive battle over the Persian
6. the Great- was only 20 when he became king of Macedonia
7. was a famous Athenian playwrights
9. Plato's most famous pupil
10. wrote the Elements, a textbook on plane geometry.
11. familiar to geometry students for his Pythagorean theorem, taught that the essence of the universe could be found in music and number
14. Aristophanes was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy
16. Leonidas- was king of the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta.
17. the greatest historian of the ancient world.
20. He worked on the geometry of spheres and cylinders and also established the value of the mathematical constant pi.

1. a sculptor whose true love was philosophy.
2. wrote History of the Persian Wars, often seen as the first real history in Western civilization.
4. considered by many the greatest philosopher of Western civilization.
5. was another important astronomer.He determined that Earth was round
8. tried to create more realistic characters.
12. of Persia- served as the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire
13. Pericles was a Greek politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens
15. of Persia- was a Persian ruler who served as the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire
18. Aristarchus of Samos was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician
19. Phillip of Macedon- came to the throne.He built a powerful army and turned Macedonia into the chief power of the Greek world.