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- Herodutus
- father of history
- Socrates
- invented the socratic method
- Plato
- wrote the republic
- Hipparchus
- created celestial mechanics
- Zeus
- ruler of Mt.Olympus, king of gods
- Aphrodite
- goddess of love and beauty
- Apollo
- god of the sun
- Ares
- god of war
- Athena
- goddess of athens and wisdom
- Demeter
- goddess of crops
- Dionysus
- god of fertilty
- Hera
- protectress marriage,children,home
- Hermes
- god of oractors and writerd
- Poseidon
- god of sea and earthquake
- Archimedes
- explained principle of lever
- Anaximander
- concept of Earth as a body suspended in space
- Eratosthenes
- Earth circumference
- Euclid
- collected and organized all existing knowledge about geometry
- Hippocrates
- founder of scientific medicine
- Ptolemy
- developed math model of Hipparchus' system
- Pythagoras
- wanted to explain all things in math terms
- Thales of Miletus
- 1st known Greek scientist