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Aeschylus 500/400 Writer Alcibiades 400 Political Leader / General Alexander the Great 300 General Archimedes 200 Scientist Aristophanes 400/300 Writer Aristotle 300 Cleisthenes 500/400 Political Leader Draco 600 Political Leader Euripides 400 Writer Homer 800/700 Writer Herodotus 400 Writer Hippocrates 400 Doctor Philosopher Plays – tragedies such as the Oresteia, a group of 3 plays about Agamemnon and co. Fought on both sides of the Peloponnesean War, created Sicilian Expedition Conquered Egypt, Persian Empire, spread Greek culture Archimedes Screw, principle of buoyancy (Eureka!) Plays – comedies such as the Clouds Tutor of Alexander the Great, student of Plato, writes on biology (classification of plants and animals), logic, and psychology, poetry, rhetoric, etc Reformed Athenian constitution, introduced ostracism First to codify Greek laws. Plays – tragedies such as The Medea Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey. Historian – Persian wars and travelogue The first to take a purely scientific Myron 400 Artist Pericles 400 Political Leader / General Pesistratus 500 Political Leader Pheidias 400’s Artist Philip of Macedon 300 General Plato 400/300 Philosopher Pythagoras 500 Sappho 600/500 Writer Scientist view of medicine – illness caused by diet, living conditions, etc NOT the gods! Sculpter – works in bronze eg. The Discus Thrower Had the Parthenon built, led Athens to head an empire Tyrant of Athens, creation of social programmes led to expanded democracy eg. Building programme Sculpter – statue of Zeus at Olympia, statue of Athena at the Parthenon Father of Alexander the Great, unites/ conquers Greece Student of Socrates, wrote on metaphysics (Allegory of the Cave, the theory of the Forms) and political theory / the ideal state Pythagorean Theorem, intervals in music, Transmigration of the Soul Poet – wrote love poems, a famous Socrates 400 Philosopher Solon 600/500 Political Leader Sophocles 400 Writer Thucydides 400 Writer woman – one of the only female poets we know of Socratic Method, beginning of scientific method Reforms the law code Plays – tragedies such as Oedipus Rex Historian – wrote A History of the Peloponnesian War – tries to give an unbiased account
