Important Greeks

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  1. 4. Studied in the academy for 20 years, and doesn’t accepts Plato’s theory of ideal forms.
  2. 5. The king of Persia.
  3. 6. A 3rd outstanding Athenian dramatist tries to create the characters more realistic.
  4. 11. Wrote the history of the Persian wars.
  5. 14. A mathematician who wrote the elements on a geometry textbook.
  6. 15. A sculptor whose true love was philosophy. Socrates left no writings, so we know about him from his writings on his pupils.
  7. 16. An great Athenian playwright, his most famous play was oedipus rex
  8. 17. Was an important astronomer, he determined that the earth is round
  9. 18. The king of Spartans, and also from 300 movie.
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  1. 1. is the same as geometry but different, it was taught that the essence of the universe could be found in music and numbers.
  2. 2. The most famous scientist of the Hellenistic era.
  3. 3. A dominant figure in Athenian politics between 461 and 429 B.C.
  4. 7. Fascinated with the question of reality.
  5. 8. He is most well known for being the character in ancient Greece who is said to have run non-stop from a battlefield in Marathon to the citadel in Athens in 490 BC
  6. 9. The greatest representative of ancient Greek comedy and the one whose works have been preserved in greatest quantity.
  7. 10. A Greek astronomer who maintained that Earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the Sun
  8. 12. The seventh major boss you can face during the main quest line in Prince of ???: The Lost Crown.
  9. 13. The greatest historian of the ancient world, and was an Athenian general who fought The Great Peloponnesian War,and later wrote history after the war.