Important Greeks

2. An Athenian historian and general.
4. A Greek politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens.
6. An ancient Ionian Greek philosopher who influenced Plato and Aristotle.
10. Son of Darius and King of Persia during the Battle of Thermopylae.
13. An ancient Greek tragedian. One of the three of whom at least one play survived in full. Ancient scholars attribute 92-95 plays to him.
14. An ancient Greek mathematician, engineer, inventor, astronomer, and physicist.
15. An ancient Greek philosopher. Student of Socrates.
16. An ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens. He wrote forty plays, eleven of which have survived virtually complete.
18. The man who ran twenty-six miles to Athens from Marathon to tell them of their victory.

1. An ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer who made the first known heliocentric model of the solar system.
3. An ancient Greek historian and geographer. Known as “The Father of History.”
5. King of Persia during the Battle of Marathon.
7. An ancient Greek philosopher credited as the founder of Western philosophy.
8. An ancient Greek polymath, mathematician, poet, geographer, music theorist, and astronomer.
9. King of Sparta who was a leader during the Battle of Thermopylae.
11. An ancient Greek tragedian. One of the three of whom at least one play survived in full.
12. An ancient Greek mathematician that specializes in as a geometer and logician.
17. An ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. Student of Plato.