Question 1

Achilles

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the greates greek warrior in the Trojan War and hero of Homer's Iliad. He killed Hector and was killed when Paris wounded him in the heel, his one vulnerable spot, with an arrow.

Question 2

Agamemnon

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The king of of Mycenae, a son of Atreus and brother of menelaus. He led the Greeks in the Trojan War and was murdered by Cytemnesta, his wife, upon his return from Troy.

Question 3

Alexander the Great-King of Macedonia(356-323 B.C.)

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conquer Persia and Egypt and invaded Inia; spread Hellenism.

Question 4

Archimedes-(born 290 B.C.)

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Greek inventor and mathematcian; invented the fomulas of surface area and volume of a sphere.

Question 5

Aristotle-(384-322 B.C.)

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Greek philosopher who was a student of Plato and became a famous teahcer; wrote about and taught logic, politics, science, and poetry; his works became the basis for medieval church scholarship.

Question 6

Hector

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The eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greates Trojnd hero in the Tojan War, killed by Achilles.

Question 7

Homer-(c. 800 B.C.)

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Greek poet; credited with composing the epics the Lliad and Odyssey.

Question 8

Helen

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The beautiful daugher of Zeus and Leda, whose abduction by Paris from her husband Menelaus caused the Trojoan War.

Question 9

Hercules

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One of the greatest heroes of classical mythology, he is suposed to have been the strongest man on earth. He ws reowned for completing twelve seemingly impossible taks- the Labors of Hercules. One of these labors was the cleaning of the Augean stable; ano

Question 10

Hippocrates-

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Greek physician who lad the foundation of scientific medicine by freeing medical study from the constraints of philosophical speculatioin and superstition. he trakitionally but inaccurately considered the author of the Hippocratic oath. Also know as the F

Question 11

Leonidas

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King of Sparta(490-480 B.C.), hero of the attle of Thermopylae, in which he ws killed by the Persians under Xerxes.

Question 12

Odysseus

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King of Ithaca. One of the fremost of the Greek heroes at the siege of Troy, noted for his courage and ingenuty. His return to his kingdom of Ithaca was fraught with adventures in which he losst all his companions and he was acknowledged by his wife Penel

Question 13

Pericles

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(495 B.C.-429 B.C.) Athenian leader played a major role in the development of democracy and the Athenian empire.

Question 14

Philip

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(382 B.C.-336 B.C.) King of Macedonia; seized power in 359 B.C.; conquered the Greek city-states; father of alexander the Great.

Question 15

Persus

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Ason of Zeus and Danae, who with Atheas help slew the Gorgon Medusa and resued Andromeda from a sea monster.

Question 16

Plato

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(427-347 b.c.) Greek philosopher: with his teacher Socrates and his pupil Aristootle, he is regarded as the initiator of western philosophy. His infuential theory of ideas, which makes a destinction between objects of sense perceptin and the universal ide

Question 17

Priam

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Aking of Troy, the son of Laomedon, husband of Hcuba, and father of Paris, Cassandra, Hector Polyxena, and many others. he was killed buring the caputre of Troy.

Question 18

Hellenism

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Characteristics of Greek culture, esp. after the time of Alexander the Great; civilization of the Hellenistic period.

Question 19

Pythagoras

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(580-500 B.C.)-Greek philosopher and mathematician. he founded a religious brotherhood, which followed a life of strict asceticiam and greatly infuluenced the development of mathematics and its application to music and astronomy.

Question 20

Socrates

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(470-399B.C.)Athenian philosopher of late 400s B.C.; taught throught questioning; helped form many values of Western culture; was put to death for challenging Athenian values.

Question 21

Solon

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(c. 630-546 B.C.) Athenian statesman; made Athens more democratic.

Question 22

themistocles

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(527-460 B.C.). He was ostracized in 470 B.C.

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