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| Sophocles | Greek Playwright known for writing dramatic tragedies like Oedipus Rex |
| Socrates | Early philosopher who taught to question authority and developed his own teaching theory. He was executed for “corrupting the youth” but was a teacher of Plato. |
| Hippocrates | known as the “father of medicine” he developed a scientific approach to healing the sick. Doctors today take an oath named for him. |
| Phidias | Greek artist and sculptor known for his sculpting the statues inside of the Parthenon including the ATHENA PARTHENOS |
| Herodotus | Greek father of History, he wrote the History of the Persian Wars |
| Aeschylus | Greek playwright known for writing his trilogy “The Orestia” which promotes democracy |
| Pythagoras | Greek Mathematician known for developing the formula for calculating the length of the sides right triangles. He has a famous Theorem named after him |
| Aristotle | Greek philosopher known for his achievements in logic as well as fields of science. He tutored Alexander the Great and was taught by Plato |
| Plato | Greek philosopher known for favoring “philosopher kings” as the best form of government in his book THE REPUBLIC. He was taught by Socrates. |
| Thucydides | Greek Historian who wrote the history of the Peloponnesian wars between Athens and Sparta |
| Parthenon | The Greatest example of Greek architecture, it is a temple dedicated to Athena |
| Doric Column |  |
| Ionic Colum |  |
| Corinthian Column |  |
| Pericles | Athenian General and Statesmen that led Athens' Golden Age |
| Homer | Epic Poet who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey |
| Epic Poetry | form of Literature used in Iliad and the Oddysey |
| Persian Wars | Athens and Sparta work together, Greece defeats Persia, enters golden age |
| Peloponnesian Wars | Athens and Sparta fight against each other, Macedonia is then able to later conquer Greece |
| Philip II | Macedonian King, Led Conquest of Greece |
| The Iliad and the Oddysey | The most famous examples of Greek Epic Poetry |
