Important Greeks

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  1. 2. The Persian ruler
  2. 7. The king of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia from 359 BC until his death in 336 BC
  3. 10. Plato’s most famous pupil
  4. 11. an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy
  5. 14. A mathematician who wrote the Element
  6. 16. A sculptor whose true love was philosophy
  7. 17. The most famous scientist of the Hellenistic Era
  8. 19. He developed the theory that the sun is at the center of the universe while the Earth rotates around the sun in a circular orbit.
  9. 20. An important astronomer who determined that Earth was round
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  1. 1. An Athenian general who fought in the Great Peloponnesian War
  2. 3. An outstanding Athenian dramatist and His plots became more complex and showed a greater interest in real-life situations.
  3. 4. The one who raced from Marathon to Athens
  4. 5. Made the Pythagorean theorem
  5. 6. He was considered by many the greatest philosopher of Western civilization
  6. 8. Wrote History of the Persian War
  7. 9. Was another great Athenian playwright most famous play is Oedipus Rex
  8. 12. A Greek politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens
  9. 13. A king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.
  10. 15. King of the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta
  11. 18. The new Persian monarch after Darius