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- Myron
- one of history's greatest sculptors. sculpted the famos figure THE DISCUS THROWER
- Phidias
- one of history's greatest sculptor. created the two exquisite statues of Athena that were on the Acropolis and in the Parthenon. greatest work was statue of Zeus.
- Praxiteles
- created sculpters that were lifelike and expressed the Greek admiration for the human body
- Socrates
- one of history's greatest thinkers and teachers
- Plato
- a wealthy young aristocrat and the greatest of Socrates' students. He wrote about government, education, justice, virtue, and religion.
- Aristotle
- founded his own school at Athens in 335 B.C. Was one of Plato's students. Studied all subjects, including, logic, science, drama, and government.
- Pythagoras
- a philosopher most famous for formula involving the triagle.
- Democritus
- developed atomic theory and the idea that the entire universe is made up of tiny particles called atoms
- Hippocrates
- founder of midicine
- Herodotus
- an enthusiastic traveler and the first historian of the westen world
- Thucydides
- became famous for his History of the Pelopnnesian War
- Aeschylus
- a playwiter who wrote of old religious beliefs
- Sophocles
- ploatright who defended traditional values
- Euripides
- a playright who wrote about war
- Aristophanes
- the finest writer of comedies
- Philip II of Madcedonia
- became king of Madcedonia and eventually became king of all Greece
- Demosthenes
- one of the finest orators in all Athenian history
- Alexander the Great
- son of Phillip the II. he set out to conquer the world. conqued Egypt, Persia, and other lands. died at age 33
- Diogenes
- famous philosopher and best known Cynic
- Pyrrho
- famous philosopher, credited as the founder of Skepticism
- Zeno
- established the Stoic philosophy in Athens in the late 300s B.C.
- Epicurus
- famous philosopher, founder of Epicurean philosophy
- Euclid
- a noted Greek mathematician, famous for devloping geometery
- Archimedes
- considered to be the greatest scientist of the hellenistic period, cerated pie, great inventor
- Aristarchus
- scientist who belived that Earth and other planets moved around the sun
- Hipparchus
- of Rhodes who was the first scientist to use trigonometry in a systematic way to claclulate movement of moon
- Eratosthenes
- calculated the circumference of Earth with amazing accuracy