Greek Figures

2. a playwright who focused on comedy
4. another philosopher put he wrote down all of his thought and philosophies, taught aristotle
5. the most famous leaders of sparta
6. was the first person to determine the sun was in the center of our solar system
8. a military advisor of the greeks, and died in the war when the plague broke out
12. a famous mathematician
14. king of macedonia, and the father of alexander the great
16. wrote the first recorded history called, history of the persian wars
18. plato's best student, another philosopher, but disagreed with plato on his views
19. the second persian king of persia who planned to invade greece
20. a more realistic playwright who developed his plots

1. only 20 when he came to power, but well trained as his father took him on military trips and other things of the sort.
3. one of the first philosophers, taught plato
7. an athenian general, and the greatest historian (according to many historians)
9. wrote the book elements, about the planes of geometry
10. the first persian king to wage war on the athenians
11. determined the earth was round and calculated its circumference
13. greek engineer and scientist, made the city syracuse
15. the man who ran 26 miles barefoot, while sparta was pursuing him to tell athens who won the war
17. a playwright whose most famous play was oedipus rex