important greeks

2. He is Known for the Battle of Marathon
3. Earth’s circumference at 24,675 miles
6. and later wrote its history.
8. His greatest achievement fought and died in the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C.E.
9. He determined that Earth was round and
10. His most famous work is the Republic
12. responsible for the full development, in the later 5th century bce, of both the Athenian democracy and the Athenian empire, making Athens the political and cultural focus of Greece.
15. He is often called the "Father of Comedy" and is credited as a pioneer of Old Comedy.
17. wrote History of the Persian Wars, often seen as the first real history in Western civilization.
18. He made pioneering contributions to all fields of philosophy and science, he invented the field of formal logic, and he identified the various scientific disciplines and explored their relationships to each other.
20. known for his inventions and scientific discoveries.
22. He is best known for his association with the Socratic method of question and answer

1. he is most celebrated as the first to propose a sun-centred universe.
4. he retired toward Bactria but was deposed and killed by the Bactrian satrap Bessus.
5. one of the best-known and most influential dramatists in classical Greek culture
7. He built a powerful army and turned Macedonia into the chief power of the Greekworld.
11. Great He was 20 when he became king of Macedonia.
13. was another great Athenian playwright. His most famous play was Oedipus Rex.
14. familiar to geometry students for his Pythagorean theorem
16. the greatest historian of the ancient world. He was an Athenian general who fought in the Great Peloponnesian
19. After Darius died in 486 b.c he became the new Persian monarch.
21. wrote the Elements, a textbook on plane geometry.