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