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| Sophocles | wrote two ancient Greek tragedies called Oedipus the King and Antigone |
| Euripides | wrote a Greeek tragedy called Medea |
| Pheidippides | ran the first 26 mile marathon from Marathon to Athens to announce victory for the Greeks over the Persians |
| Aeschylus | wrote a Greek trilogy of tragedies called the Oresteia |
| Plato | wrote The Republic about the perfect government and founded a school of philosopher in Athens |
| Aristotle | a philosopher that believed in analyzing and classifying items by observations and investigation |
| Archimedes | a mathematician that discovered the value of pi |
| Eratosthenes | determined the Earth was round and calulated the circumference of the Earth within 200 miles |
| Euclid | a mathmetician that wrote the Elements, a book on plane geometry that is still used |
| Epicurus | a philosopher that believed in pursuing personal happiness as life's goal |
| Pythagoras | a mathematician that discoverdd that numbers are more useful thn for just counting and could be used to set patterns in nature by using formulas |
