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Greek Heros

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Agamemnon   King of Mycenae; brother of Menelaus; leader of greeks in the Trojan war; Killed By wife after sacrificing his daughter  
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Alexander   defeated Darius; conquered all of Persia; son of philip; tutored by aristotle  
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Archimedes   mathematician and inventor; discovered why boats float  
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Aristotle   inventor of plant and animal classification; philosopher; taught by Plato; tutored Alexander  
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Cleisthenes   started Greek democracy in 507 B.C.  
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Euclid   inventor of modern geometry  
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Hercules   half man, half god;performed many feats of strength  
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Herodotus   wrote the history of the war between Persia and Greece  
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Hippocrates   first doctor of fame; doctors today take a Hippocratic Oath  
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Homer   creator of the Iliad and the Odyssey  
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Menelaus   King of Sparta; Husband of Helen of Troy; brother of Agamemnon  
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Perciles   Ruler of Athens at the beginning of the war with Sparta  
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Pheidippedes   ran first marathon attempting to get help from the Spartans against Persians  
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Philip of Macedon   first ruler of unified Greece; father of Alexander  
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Epaminondas   from Thebes; created new battle tactics; defeated Spartans in battle  
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Plato   Philosopher;taught by Socrates; taught Aristotle  
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Socrates   philosopher; taught Plato; executed by Athens  
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Themistocles   Athenian leader during war with Persia; defeated Xerxes at Salamis  
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Theseus   prince of Athens; killed the minotaur at Crete  
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Thucydides   wrote the history of the Peloponnesian war  
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