Famous Greeks

2. He built a powerful army and turned Macedonia into the chief power of the Greek world.
8. He was 20 when he became king of Macedonia.
10. He led military campaigns in Europe, Greece, and even in the Indus valley, conquering lands and expanding his empire.
14. He wrote the Elements, a textbook on plane geometry.This work has been used up to modern times.
15. He determined that Earth was round and calculated Earth’s circumference at 24,675 miles. Pericles He established democracy in Athens and the creation of the Athenian Empire.
16. He thought that by examining individual objects (trees), we could perceive their form (treeness).
18. Known for his inventions and scientific discoveries.

1. His most famous play was the Oedipus Rex
3. He portrayed war as brutal and barbaric and expressed deep compassion for the women and children who suffered as a result of it.
4. He wrote History of the Persian Wars, often seen as the first real history in Western civilization.
5. He developed the theory that the sun is at the center of the universe while the Earth rotates around the sun in a circular orbit.
6. Familiar to geometry students for his Pythagorean theorem
7. After Darius died in 486 b.c. he became the new Persian monarch.
8. He is often called the "Father of Comedy" and is credited as a pioneer of Old Comedy.
9. a sculptor whose true love was philosophy.
11. He raced from Marathon to Athens. With his last breath, he announced, “Victory, we win,” before dropping dead.
12. He was the most famous spartan king
13. He was a student of Socrates
17. The greatest historian of the ancient world.