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pericles

a great champion of democracy, i rebuilt athens after the persian wars

herodotus

i was the first major writer of history in greece

socrates

i was the first of the great athenian philosophers, learning about broad concepts of human life by working through a long series of questions

alexander the great

i was the son of philip II and eventually built the largest empire the world had ever seen

homer

i wrote two epic poems : the illiad and the odyssey

solon

in the 590s bc i revised the laws in athens creating the first realstep toward democracy