Very important Greeks

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  1. 2. - Philippides is the central figure in the story that inspired the marathon race
  2. 6. of Persia - Xerxes, commonly known as Xerxes the Great, was a Persian ruler who served as the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire
  3. 7. Leonidas - Leonidas was king of the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta
  4. 9. - Greek philosopher and polymath
  5. 10. - Euripides was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles
  6. 15. - Aristarchus 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
  7. 16. the Great - Alexander III of Macedon, most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon
  8. 17. - Athenian philosopher, scholar, and teacher
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  1. 1. Phillip of Macedon - Philip II of Macedon was the king of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia from 359 BC until his death in 336 BC
  2. 2. - Athenian philosopher and student of Socrates who is considered a founder of Western philosophy
  3. 3. of Persia - Darius, commonly known as Darius the Great, was the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire
  4. 4. - mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor
  5. 5. - Herodotus was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus
  6. 8. - Pericles was a Greek statesman and general during the Golden Age of Athens
  7. 11. - ancient Greek mathematician known as the father of geometry
  8. 12. - Greek philosopher and mathematician
  9. 13. - Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedian, one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full
  10. 14. - Thucydides was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC