Important Greeks

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  1. 2. The king of Spartans, and also from 300 movie.
  2. 4. He is most well known for being the character in ancient Greece who is said to have run non-stop from a battlefield in Marathon to the citadel in Athens in 490 BC
  3. 5. The seventh major boss you can face during the main quest line in Prince of ???: The Lost Crown.
  4. 6. A mathematician who wrote the elements on a geometry textbook.
  5. 8. one of the greatest military strategists and leaders in world history, and is also the founder of the fourth empire and a former king of macedonia.
  6. 11. Was an important astronomer, he determined that the earth is round
  7. 13. An great Athenian playwright, his most famous play was oedipus rex
  8. 15. Wrote the history of the Persian wars.
  9. 16. The greatest historian of the ancient world, and was an Athenian general who fought The Great Peloponnesian War,and later wrote history after the war.
  10. 18. Studied in the academy for 20 years, and doesn’t accepts Plato’s theory of ideal forms.
  11. 19. The greatest representative of ancient Greek comedy and the one whose works have been preserved in greatest quantity.
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  1. 1. A Macedonia king who restored internal peace to his country.
  2. 3. A dominant figure in Athenian politics between 461 and 429 B.C.
  3. 7. The king of Persia
  4. 9. Fascinated with the question of reality.
  5. 10. A Greek astronomer who maintained that Earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the Sun
  6. 11. A 3rd outstanding Athenian dramatist tries to create the characters more realistic.
  7. 12. A sculptor whose true love was philosophy. Socrates left no writings, so we know about him from his writings on his pupils.
  8. 14. The most famous scientist of the Hellenistic era.
  9. 17. is the same as geometry but different, it was taught that the essence of the universe could be found in music and numbers.