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Greek Scientists, philosophers, poets

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Founded cult of priesthood combining surgery and drugs   Asclepius  
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Daughter of Sargon   En Heddu Anna  
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Had conversations in agora   Socrates  
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Predicted eclipse in 585 b.c.   Thales  
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Hypothesized 4 elements--earth, air, water, fire   Aristotle  
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Turned questions of ethics and virtue away from heavenly bodies   Socrates  
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First to renounce mythology   Thales  
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Introduced "spirit system"   Galen  
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Convicted, believed in law and drank hemlock   Socrates  
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Deified--became Greek god of Medicine   Asclepius  
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Historian of the Peloponnesian War   Thucydides  
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Greatest hero of the Greeks   Achilles  
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Leader of Greeks, brother of Menelaus   Agamemnon  
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Mother of Achilles   Thetis  
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Father of Achilles   Peleus  
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Wife of Agamemnon in Iliad, also in Agamemnon   Clytemnestra  
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Wrote Theogony, Works and days, and The Shield of Herakles   Hesiod  
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forst to write odes to winners of Olympic games   Simonides  
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Founded school at Croton   Pythagoras  
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Understood that the Milky Way was a vast system of stars   Democritus  
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Found medical school at Cos   Hippocrates  
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Philosophized in astronomy--harmony of spheres   Pythagoras  
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Founded Academy, wrote The Republic   Plato  
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Aristotle's fifth element   ether  
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Founded hedonistic school that sought happiness through luxury and freedom from anxiety and fear   Epicurus  
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Wrote On Ancient Medicine   Hippocrates  
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Place where Euclid worked   Alexandria  
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Studied acoustics, finding that harmony happens when frequencies vibrate in small whole number ratios   Pythagoras  
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Invented philosophic argument   Plato  
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Wrote The Sacred Disease   Hippocrates  
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Used in finding greatest common divisor   Euclid's algorithm  
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Started Lyceum   Aristotle  
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astronomer who studied parallaxes; said that the lack of stellar parallaxes showed that stars were infinitely far away   Aristarchus  
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Created compound pulley, lever   Archimedes  
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Wrote about Socrates' death; wrote Socrates' dialogues   Plato  
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Made prime number sieve, measured Earth's curvature between two Egyptian cities   Eratosthenes  
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States that the number of prime numbers is infinite   Euclid's Second Theorem  
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Died in Euboea   Aristotle  
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Astronomer from Samos--310 to 230 B.C.--believed in heliocentricity   Aristarchus  
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Philosophized about taxonomy and meteorology   Aristotle  
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Astronomer who made first accurate prediction of Earth's circumference and polar diameter   Eratosthenes  
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Made mechanical model of sun, moon, and earth   Archimedes  
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Made first accurate star map--catalogued over 850 stars   Hipparchus  
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Worked with geography--developed latitude and longitude lines   Ptolemy  
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Estimated moon's size and distance from Earth relatively accurately   Hipparchus  
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Wrote On Plane Equilibriums, Quadrature of the Parabola, On the Sphere and the Cylinder, On Spirals, On Conoids and Spheroids, On Floating Bodies, Measurement of a Circle, and The Sandreckoner   Archimedes  
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Wrote On the Natural Facilities   Galen  
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Developed three methods for making map projections   Ptolemy  
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Considered founder of trigonometry--table of chords traced out by angles in a circle is forerunner to modern trig tables   Hipparchus  
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Legend says that he burnt Rome's ships when they were laying siege to Syracuse by reflecting the sun with a huge mirror   Archimedes  
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Combined theories of Aristotle and Hipparchus for a combined geocentric theory   Ptolemy  
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Performed extensive dissections of animals and humans, believed that blood came from the liver and sloshed around the body   Galen  
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8th century BC poet, wrote dactyl hexameter   Homer  
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How were Homer's epics recited?   To the music of the cithara  
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First historian, wrote Histories   Herodotus  
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Wrote Anabasis, as well as short treatises   Xenophon  
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son of Anchises and Aphrodite in Iliad, escaped Troy and wandered   Aeneus  
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Helen's husband, declares war   Menelaus  
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Odyssey Cannibals   Laestrygones  
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3 sons of Priam and Hecuba   Hector, Paris, Laocoon  
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Who are the father and wife of Odysseus   Laertes and Penelope  
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45 intact odes, charged for odes to make a living, most famous poet of Olympic heroes   Pindar  
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