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  1. 3. An Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century
  2. 5. He was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.
  3. 8. Who was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.
  4. 10. Who was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician
  5. 12. Who of Syracuse was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily.
  6. 13. Who was a Greek politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens
  7. 14. who of Samos was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at the center of the universe
  8. 16. Who was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy
  9. 18. He was the king of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia from 359 BC until his death in 336 BC.
  10. 19. A Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire
  11. 20. Who of Samos was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism
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  1. 1. An ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full.
  2. 2. Spartan king whose stand against the invading Persian army at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece
  3. 4. Who is the central figure in the story that inspired three modern sporting events, the marathon race, the Spartathlon and Authentic Pheidippides Run
  4. 6. He was a Persian ruler who served as the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire
  5. 7. He was a Persian ruler who served as the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire
  6. 9. who is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full.
  7. 11. Who was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms
  8. 15. who of Cyrene was an Ancient Greek polymath: a mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist
  9. 17. Who was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath