Important Greek People (and some Persians)

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  1. 4. This Greek comedic playwright is considered, "The Father of Comedy."
  2. 8. This PERSIAN King of Kings was Darius's son, and was most known for his invasion of Greece from across the Hellespont, and for his ultimate DEFEAT from the Greeks leading to the decline of the Achaemenid Empire.
  3. 11. This Greek tragedian is most known for writing Medea, The Bacchae, Hippolytus, Alcestis and The Trojan Women.
  4. 14. This Greek philosopher created the Socratic method.
  5. 16. This Greek mathematician and physicist invented a death ray. (that might not work.)
  6. 17. This Greek politician was also an important general in the Great Peloponnesian War.
  7. 18. This Greek astronomer and philosopher was the first known person to put the sun in the center of the Universe.
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  1. 1. This Greek mathematician is considered the "Father of Geometry."
  2. 2. This Greek philosopher wrote "the Republic."
  3. 3. This Greek Courier ran all the way to Athens from Marathon, and with his last, dying breath, proclaimed they’d won the Battle of Marathon.
  4. 5. This Greek historian and general is the author of ‘the History of the 'Peloponnesian War.’
  5. 6. This Greek philosopher tutored Alexander the Great.
  6. 7. This Greek Spartan King was most known for leading 300 of his warriors in a last stand against the Persians in the Battle of Thermopylae.
  7. 9. This Greek historian and geographer is also known as “The Father of History.”
  8. 10. This Greek philosopher created the Pythagorean Theorem.
  9. 12. This Greek mathematician and geographer became the librarian at the Library of Alexandria.
  10. 13. This Greek tragedian is most known for writing Oedipus the King Oedipus the King.
  11. 15. This PERSIAN King of Kings was the third in the Achaemenid Empire. He fought the Greeks in the Battle of Marathon.