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Famed Ancient Greeks
This is to help you study famous ancient Greeks.
| Person | Description |
|---|---|
| Socrates | First of the great Greek Philosophers. He is considered by many to be the founder of Western philosophy. |
| Plato | Student of Socrates. He wrote many dialogues using Socrates as a major character. He also founded the Academy in Athens. |
| Aristotle | Student of Plato. He was a philosopher and scientist. He was interested in the physical world. He was also teacher to Alexander the Great. |
| Aeschylus | A Greek playwright, he is considered the father of the tragedy. |
| Sophocles | He was probably the most popular playwright during Greek times. He won many writing competitions and is thought to have written over 100 plays. |
| Euripides | The last of the great Greek tragedy writers, he was unique in that he used strong women characters and intelligent slaves. |
| Aristophanes | A Greek playwright who wrote comedies, he is considered the father of the comedy. |
| Aesop | His fables were known for both talking animals as well as teaching a moral. Historians aren't 100% sure if he really existed or was just a fable himself. |
| Hesiod | He wrote a book that was about Greek rural life called 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘢𝘺𝘴. It helped historians understand what the daily life for the average Greek person was like. He also wrote 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘺, which explained a lot about Greek Mythology. |
| Homer | He was the most famous of the Greek epic poets. He wrote the epic poems the 𝘐𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘥 and the 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺. |
| Pindar | He is considered the greatest of the nine lyric poets of Ancient Greece. He is most known today for his odes. |
| Sappho | One of the great lyric poets, she wrote romantic poetry that was very popular in her day. |
| Herodotus | A historian who chronicled the Persian Wars, he is often called the Father of History. |
| Thucydides | A great Greek historian who was known for the exact science of his research, he wrote about the war between Athens and Sparta. |
| Archimedes | He is considered one of the great mathematicians and scientists in history. He made many discoveries both in math and physics including many inventions. |
| Aristarchus | An astronomer and mathematician, he was the first to put the sun at the center of the known universe rather than the Earth. |
| Euclid | The Father of Geometry, he wrote a book called 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, likely the most famous mathematical textbook in history. |
| Hippocrates | A scientist of medicine, he is called the Father of Western Medicine. Doctors still take an oath named after him today. |
| Pythagoras | A scientist and philosopher, he came up with a theorem named after him still used today in much of geometry. |
| Alexander the Great | Often called the greatest military commander in history, he expanded the Greek empire to its greatest size, never losing a battle. |
| Cleisthenes | Called the Father of Athenian Democracy, he helped to reform the constitution so the democracy could work for all. |
| Demosthenes | A great statesman, he was considered the greatest orator (speech giver) of Greek times. |
| Draco | Famous for a type of law named after him that made many offences punishable by death. |
| Pericles | A leader and statesman during the golden age of Greece. He helped democracy to flourish and led great building projects in Athens that still survive today. |
| Solon | He is usually credited with laying the foundations and ideas for democracy. |
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