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27 Cards in this Set
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Promised and delivered
democracy to Athens |
Cleisthenes
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general who led the battle of Thermopylae
chose 300 for the battle |
Leonidas
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General/statesman who helped
rebuild Athens during golden age |
Pericles
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He was a great thinker. He taught that
education was the key to personal growth. |
Socrates
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disucssed politics. student of Socrates
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Plato
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wise lawgiver Archon who reformed Athens;
established bicameral government |
Solon
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Who was the first historian
of the Western world? Father of History |
Herodotus
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Who was the founder of Epicurean
philosophy and who taught that the aim of life was to seek pleasure and to avoid pain? |
Epicurus
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Who was the greatest scientist of
the Hellenistic period who also found the value of (pi)? |
Archimedes
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runner in the battle of marathon who
ran, "we conquer", gasped, died |
Pheidippides
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Son of Darius, Persian leader in the
battles of Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea |
Xerxes
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Who was the King of Macedon of
Greece who also had a son named Alexander the Great? |
Phillip II of Macedon
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Who was known as the finest writer
of Greek comedies and who was known for their sharp wit? |
Aristophanes
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Who was a wealthy young aristocrat
& the greatest of Socrates's students? He also formed the Academy. |
Plato
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Who established the Stotic philosophy
in Athens in the late 300s BC? |
Zeno
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Who lived between 460 - 377 BC and
was the founder of medical science? |
Hippocrates
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Who was a philosopher who believed
everything could be explained in terms of mathematics? |
Pythagoras
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Who defended many traditional Greek
values and wrote a famous tradgic play "Oedipus Rex"? |
Sophocles
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Phillip 2 of Macedon's son. His aim
was to bring all the known world into a single empire |
Alexander the Great
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Athenian general who attacked Persians
before they could get attacked (battle of Marathon) |
Miltiades
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Athenian general who built a fleet
of trireme warships |
Themistocles
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Biologist, taught Alexander the Great
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Aristotle
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Athenian Leader who evacuated the
city during battle of Salamis |
Themistocles
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blind poet and author of
the Iliad and Odyssey |
Homer
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Who scholars named the Minoan
civilization of Crete after |
King Minos
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legendary king of Mycenae; his mask
was found by Heinrich Schliemann |
Agamemnon
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King of Persia, with incredible wealth
- the first to attack Greece |
Darius I
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