Important Greeks

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  1. 3. the Great Was a young king after his father died, King Phillip and made him a great military leader, after his father showed him
  2. 6. He was a mathematician that wrote the book Elements, that was about plane geometry
  3. 10. He raced from Marathon to Athens. With his last breath, he announced, “Victory, we win,” before dropping dead.
  4. 11. He was a philosopher that knew the standard elementary education of literature, music, and gymnastics.
  5. 14. He was an astronomer that discovered that the Sun was in the center of of the universe while Earth rotates around it
  6. 16. He was the greatest historian in the ancient world
  7. 17. of Persia He vowed to make sure to seek revenge after the Persians lost against the Spartas
  8. 18. Was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy
  9. 19. He was a philosopher that made his own academy and taught the Socratic method
  10. 20. He was a Athenian dramatist and tried to create more realistic characters
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  1. 1. He was a great Athenian that made plays including his famous one called Oedipus Rex
  2. 2. Phillip of Macedon Was the king of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia from 359 BC until his death in 336 BC.
  3. 4. He was a famous astronomer, that discovered the circumference of the Earth
  4. 5. He was a prominent political leader in Athens from 461 B.C. to 429 B.C
  5. 7. of Persia He was the persian ruler, that wanted to seek revenge
  6. 8. Was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts.
  7. 9. Leonidas He was a king, that fought in the 300 sparta with his warriors against the persians
  8. 12. He was a teacher that taught geometry and taught the essence of the universe
  9. 13. He worked on the geometry of spheres and cylinders and also established the value of the mathematical constant pi.
  10. 15. He wrote History of the Persian Wars, often seen as the first real history in civilization