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Great Greeks
Great Greek
Achievement
Greek tragic dramatist whose plays
were the first to include two actors
in addition to the chorus. Only 7 of
his 90 dramas survive
Aesop
Greek mathematician, engineer, and
physicist
Aristophanes
Student of Plato; Philosopher,
Mathematician, Scientist; tutored
Alexander the Great; wrote about
“logic” and how the world works
Aspasia
Cleisthenes
Greek mathematician who created
the fundamentals of modern
geometry
Greek classical dramatist who wrote
more than 90 tragedies
Modern Day Comparison
Herodotus
Called the ‘The Father of Medicine’
he laid down the principles of
modern medicine
Greek epic poet who wrote the great
epic poems, The Iliad and The
Odyssey
Pericles
Student of Socrates; set up a school
called “The Academy” which
survived for 900 years; rejected
Athenian democracy
Ptolemy
Pythagoras
Athenian lawmaker who restored
democracy to Athens
Greek dramatist, considered one of
the greatest dramatists of ancient
Greece. His surviving plays include
Oedipus Rex and Antigone
Philosopher; used the marketplace
as a classroom with the Socratic
Method; sentenced to death by
“forced suicide”
Thucydides