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Famous Greeks
Famous greeks real and myth
| Person | Claim to Fame |
|---|---|
| Draco | Attempted to change government, failed because punishments were too harsh |
| Solon | Made first constitution |
| Cleisthenes | First democratic constitution |
| Darius | Persian king who wanted to punish Greeks for helping Ionians rebel, led Persian Wars and Battle of Marathon |
| Pheidippedes | Ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens telling them of the victory, dropped dead |
| Leonidas | Led the Spartan 300 in the Battle of Thermopylae |
| Xerxes | Darius' son, continued Persian Wars, lost Battle of Salamis and navy destroyed |
| Themistocles | Athenian commander who convinced Athens to use silver mine money to build a navy, used navy to destroy Persians at Salamis |
| Demosthenes | Orator who warned Macedonians were coming |
| Phillip of Macedon | Macedonian king, believed was his destiny to unify Greece |
| Alexander the Great | Phillip's son, took over conquering Greece, wanted to unite Macedonians, Greeks , and Persians, founded Alexandria |
| Pericles | Built Parthenon, led Athens during a golden age of art, philosophy, literature |
| Homer | Blind poet who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey |
| Sappho | Greek woman poet, Lesbian from Lesbos |
| Aeschylus | Playwright: Wrote Oresteia |
| Euripedes | Playwright: Wrote Medea |
| Sophocles | Playwright: Wrote Oedipus Rex, Antigone |
| Aristophanes | Playwright: Wrote The Frogs |
| Herodotus | Historian who traveled the ancient world, made the list of the Seven Wonders |
| Socrates | Thinker, committed suicide by drinking juice of Hemlock |
| Plato | Student of Socrates, made The Academy to train government leaders, wrote The Republic about what a government should be |
| Aristotle | Student of Plato, tutored Alexander the Great, classified plants and animals |
| Euclid | Geometric theories, wrote first geometry book |
| Archimedes | Invented lever and buoyancy |
| Pythagoras | Geometry,theorem to find hypotenuse of triangles |
| Hippocrates | Believed disease came from natural causes not demons, oath for doctors |
| Zeus | Ruler of Mt. Olympus, king of the gods, god of the heavens and weather |
| Hera | Zeus' wife, goddess of marriage, children and the home |
| Aphrodite | Goddess of love and beauty |
| Apollo | God of the sun, music, poetry, and medicine |
| Ares | God of war |
| Artemis | Goddess of the moon; mighty huntress; guardian of cities, young animals and women; twin sister of Apollo |
| Athena | Goddess of wisdom, city god of Athens, daughter of Zeus |
| Demeter | Goddess of crops |
| Dionysus | God of fertility, wine, revelry, joyous life and hospitality, and of wild things |
| Hades | High lord of the underworld |
| Hermes | Messenger to mortals, son of Zeus, god of orators, writers, and business, protector of thieves and mischief-makers |
| Poseidon | God of the ocean, seas, and earthquakes |
| Sisyphus | Handcuffed Hades in a closet, punished by having to roll a rock up a hill forever |
| Prometheus | Gave fire to the mortals, punished by having an eagle repeatedly peck out his liver |
| Orpheus | Musician who lost his wife Eurydice, by looking back into the underworld |
| Pandora | Disobeyed gods by opening a box that let all evils loose into the world |
| Oedipus | Married his mother and killed his father |
| Theseus | With Daedalus' help, made it through the labyrinth and killed the minotaur |
| Daedalus | Imprisoned in a tower with his son Icarus after giving Theseus the secret of killing the bull, built wings to escape, warned his son Icarus not to fly to high or too low |
| Icarus | Flew too high, wax on wings melted, crashed to ocean |
| Heracles | Half-man, half-god, completed twelve labors, became immortal |
| Atlas | Carries the weight of the world on his shoulders |
| Helen | The most beautiful woman in the world, Trojan War fought over her |
| Achilles | Completely protected except for one spot on his heel, arrow hits it and is killed |
| Odysseus | Takes 20 years and fights various monsters to return to his wife at the end of the Trojan War, the Odyssey written after him |
| Midas | Gets donkeys ears, golden touch |
| Pegasus | A winged horse that carries Zeus' arrows |
| Centaur | Half man, half horse |
| Cerberus | Three headed dog that guarded the entrance to the underworld |
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