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Herodotus
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The first historian. He is known as the father of history because of his factual account of the Persian wars. WE get the word history from is book.
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Aristarchus
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An early astronomer who studied the stars. He was the first to think that the Earth revolved around the sun although it would be many centuries before this theory was believed by most people
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Thucydides
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Considered to be among the greatest ancient historians, he fought in the peloponnesian war and wrote his history of the peloponnesian war. this historian stressed the importance of using accurate facts and eye witness accounts to report what happended
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Sophocles and Euripides
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They were both playrights of greek tragedies. One was to use multiple actors and background scenery in his plays. He wrote Oedipus rex and antigone. The other wrote about regular people and real life situation
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Aristotle
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A philosopher and teacher. He was a student of Plato and a leader of great discussions about logic, history, and science. He became the teacher of alexander the great and later founded a school called Lyceum. He died of a stomach illness
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Aesop
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A author of many fables including the tortoise and the hare. He was a slave, but his original homeland is not known. He was freed at one time and was reportedly killed
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Hipocrates
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He was an early pioneer in the field of medicine. He established a code of ethics for people working the medical field. The Hippocratic Oath. Doctors still use parts of this oath today
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Homer
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he was a poet. He is credited with being the author of epic poems. The lliad and the oddessey- considered to be some Greece's finest literature. It is believed that he was blind and recited or sand his long poems by memory
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Hypatia
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She was a philosopher, astronomer, mathamatician, and a teacher. She wrote several books about math. She was cruelly murdered by a mob of Christians for her pagan beiliefs
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Plato
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He was a philosopher and teacher. He was a student of Socrates and teacher to aristotle. He founded an academy which is one of the earliest known organized schools. He wrote about the teachings of Socrates as well as his own thoughts.
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Pythagorus
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He was a theorist in mathematics, music, and astronomy. He was the first to prove that the square of a hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
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Socrates
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He was a philosopher. Taught plato. And he died by drinking hemlock. Athens didn't like it when he questioned their way of life and their gods
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Archimedes
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invented pi, the lever, and a catupult. he was a famous ancinet mathematician
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Euclid
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Famous greek mathematician. Lived and worked in Alexandria Egypt. No royal way to learn geometry he said to a king
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Underworld
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Where did ancient greeks beilieve their spirits went when dead
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