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- Socrates
- ancient Athenian philosopher
- marathon
- a battle in 490 BC in which the Athenians and their allies defeated the Persians
- sparta
- an ancient Greek city famous for military prowess
- alexander the great
- king of Macedon
- pericles
- Athenian statesman whose leadership contributed to Athen's political and cultural supremacy in Greece
- fates
- a group of three goddesses of destiny
- agora
- a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece
- Aesop
- Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC)
- herodotus
- the ancient Greek known as the father of history
- hydra
- (Greek mythology) monster with nine heads
- alexandria
- the chief port of Egypt
- trojan horse
- a large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War
- plato
- ancient Athenian philosopher
- xerxes
- Persian leader who invaded Greece son of darius
- aristarchus
- an ancient Greek grammarian remembered for his commentary on the Iliad and Odyssey (circa 217-145 BC)
- 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
- homer
- ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC)
- persia
- an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC
- trojan war
- (Greek mythology) a great war fought between Greece and Troy
- acropolis
- the citadel in ancient Greek towns
- zeus
- (Greek mythology) the supreme god of ancient Greek mythology
- Archimedes
- Greek mathematician and physicist noted for his work in hydrostatics and mechanics and geometry (287-212 BC)
- aristocracy
- the most powerful members of a society
- chimera
- (Greek mythology) fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail
- hera
- queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology