| A | B |
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| Cleisthenes | Athenian statesman, chief archon, founded Athenina democracy |
| Persian Wars | Athens defeats Persia, Battle of Marathon, Delian League formed, Battles of Salamis and Thermopylae |
| Peloponnesian Wars | Sparta vs. Athens, Spartan victory, Athens hit by a plague |
| Oedipus Rex | most famous Greek drama |
| Socrates | great philosopher known for the Socratic Method |
| Plato | followed the teachings of Socrates, wrote The Republic |
| Aristotle | known for the Aristocratic Logic |
| Pythagorus | invented the Pythagorean Theorem |
| Hippocrates | expert in medicine, created the Hippocratic Oath |
| Macedonia | little-known kingdom where Philip II and Alexander the Great came from |
| Philip II | king of Macedonia from 359 B.C. to 337 B.C. |
| Alexander the Great | young king who conquered Persia |
| Parthenon | great Greek temple in Athens dedicated to Athena |
| The Illiad | Epic story about the heroes at the Trojan War |
| The Odyssey | epic story about the adventures of Odysseus, a Greek trojan War hero |
| Hestia | goddess of hearth and home, community |
| Ares | god of war |
| Poseidon | god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses |
| Dionysus | god of wine, revelry |
| Hera | queen of gods, women, marriage, childbirth |
| Athena | goddess of wisdom, practical arts, war |
| Hermes | messenger of the gods, trade and commerce, travelers, thieves and scoundrels |
| Demeter | goddess of harvest, agriculture, fertility and fruitfulness |
| pillars | supported roofs of Greek temples - Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian |
| Salamis | Greeks appeared to be trapped by the island of Salamis, Athenian ships defeated the Persians. |
