| A | B |
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| Cyrus the Great | the founder of the Persian Empire |
| Pericles | Athenian leader; played major role in development of democracy and Athenian Empire |
| King Philip | a king of Macedonia; seized power; conqured the Greek city-states; father of Alexander the Great |
| Demosthenes | Greek orator who gave speeches against King Philip of Macedonia, speeches knowns as "Philipics" |
| Aristotle | Greek philosopher who was student of Plato; wrote about and taught politics, logic, science and poetry |
| Achilles | A Greek hero of the Trojan War, main character and greatest warrior in Homer's "Illiad" |
| Alexander the Great | King of Macedonia; conquerer of Persia and Egypt, invader of India |
| Euclid | Greco-roman mathematician; known for the elements, a book on geometry |
| Eratosthenes | Greek scholar who headed the library of Alexandria; an astronomer who wrote about many subjects |
| Archimedes | Greek inventor and mathematician; calculated the surface area and volume of a sphere |
