Who's Who - Ancient Greece

Thucydides

A Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian Wars between Sparta and Athens.

Archimedes

A Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer who is considered one of the greatest minds of the classical world.

Hippocrates

A Greek physician during the Golden Age of Pericles who is credited with being the father of medicine.

Aristophanes

A Greek writer of comedy. (the father of comedy) Lysistrata, The Birds, and The Clouds

Sophocles

A Greek writer of tragedy who followed after Aeschylus and earlier than those of Euripides. Antigone, and Oedipus the King

Aeschylus

A Greek writer of tragedy. He wrote Agamemnon (the father of tragedy)

Homer

A blind Greek storyteller credited with popularizing the Iliad and the Odyssey

Euclid

A highly regarded Hellenistic thinker and mathematician who opened a school of geometry in Alexandria Egypt.

Philip II

Father of Alexander the Great and King of Macedonia. He wanted to unite Greece and conquer the Persian Empire.

Socrates

Greece's first and greatest philosopher who said "the unexamined life is not worth living", He was put to death for corrupting the youth.

Pythagoras

Greek mathematician who created the pythagorean theorem

Phidias

Greek sculptor, painter, and architect who created the statue of Zeus at Olympia that was one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world.

Aristotle

Plato's most famous student who started a school called the Lyceum which was a school for studying logic in all branches of knowledge. His teaching established the foundations of the scientific method. He also the the tutor of Alexander the Great.

Draco (The Law Giver)

The first legislator of Athens in Ancient Greece. He replaced the prevailing system of oral law and blood feud by a written code to be enforced only by a court. Draco's written law became known for its harshness

Pericles

The leader of Athens during their Golden Age. He had 3 specific goals for the City State which had become a Greek Imperial capital under the Delian League; Glorify Athens, Hold and strengthen the empire, Strengthen Athenian Democracy

Plato

The most impressive student of Socrates who wrote the Republic, and has influenced western culture for 1500 years.

Alexander the Great

The son of a Macedonian ruler (Phillip II) and heir to a Greek empire that he used to conquer the Persian empire.

Herodotus

The world's first great historian who wrote a history of the Persian Wars.

Solon

Was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet who is credition with creating the framework for the first democracy