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- Archimedes
- Greek mathematician and physicist noted for his work in hydrostatics and mechanics and geometry (287-212 BC)
- Helen of Troy
- (Greek mythology) the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris
- Hera
- queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology
- Herodotus
- the ancient Greek known as the father of history
- Pericles
- Athenian statesman whose leadership contributed to Athen's political and cultural supremacy in Greece
- Gorgons
- three ugly sisters with scales, claws and fangs
- Xerxes
- Son os Persin leader named Darius
- ecclesia
- a group of 40,000 male Athenian citizens which met at the Pynx every 10 days, Athenian assembly; included all male citizens over the age of eighteen.
- Knossos
- an ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC
- Hydra
- (Greek mythology) monster with nine heads
- Theseus
- (Greek mythology) a hero and king of Athens who was noted for his many great deeds: killed Procrustes and the Minotaur and defeated the Amazons and united Attica
- Crete
- the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean
- Paris
- Prince of Troy who fell in love with Helen
- Euclid
- He is the father of geometry and wrote a book explaining geometry that was used as a text book till the 1900
- agora
- a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece