A | B |
Artemis | Goddess of the hunt |
Herodotus | Father of history |
Aeschylus | Father of tragedy, wrote Oerestia |
Hera | Queen of the gods |
Sophocles | Dramatist who wrote Oedipus Rex |
Apollo | God of music |
Draco | Tyrant,led to reforms,Athens “innocent until proven guilty" |
Athena | Goddess of wisdom |
Homer | Poet who wrote Iliad and Odyssey |
Zeus | King of the gods |
Pericles | Extended democracy to most adult males in Athens |
Aphrodite | Goddess of love |
Hippocrates | Father of medicine |
Archimedes | Inventor (screw and lever and pulley) |
Euclid | Father of Geometry |
Pythagoras | Developed theorem for right triangle (A²+B²=C²) |
Aristotle | Last great philosopher |
Phillip II of Macedon | Conquered most of Greece |
Thucydides | Historian who wrote about the Peloponnesian Wars |
Phidias | Greek sculptor |
Plato | Philosopher who wrote The Republic |
Alexander the Great | Spread the Hellenistic culture |
Solon | Greek reformer who overthrew Draco’s harsh laws |
Socrates | First great philosopher, taught by asking ?s |