important greeks

4. transforming Macedonia into a unified, powerful state and for his military and diplomatic innovations
7. the Great
10. the theory of forms
11. massive Achaemenid Persian Empire
12. leading statesman and orator of Athens during its Golden Age
13. the History of the Peloponnesian War
14. leading a large-scale invasion of Greece
16. for his brilliant contributions to mathematics, physics, and engineering
17. marathon to tell about the greeks victory
18. his religious teachings
19. his exceptional Greek tragedies, such as Oedipus the King and Antigone - her courageous defiance of King Creon's unjust law by burying her brother, Polynices
20. contributions to logic, science, and philosophy

1. Aristophanes is famous for being the most celebrated and prolific playwright of ancient Greek comedy, often called the "Father of Comedy"
2. the first ancient Greek astronomer to propose a heliocentric model of the universe
3. socratic method
5. his groundbreaking and revolutionary plays that explored the darker, more gritty aspects of human nature
6. authoring Elements, a foundational 13-book series that systematically presented geometry and established a standard for logical mathematical reasoning and proof
8. writing The Histories
9. the first person to accurately calculate the Earth's circumference
15. his heroic leadership and death during the Battle of Thermopylae