ANCIENT GREEK DEAD DUDES REVIEW

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ANCIENT GREEK DEAD DUDES REVIEW
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SOCRATES

• Greek philosopher (a thinker or lover of wisdom)
• Wanted people to think for themselves
• Socratic Method Question Everything!!!
• Sentenced to death

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PLATO

• Greek Philosopher
• Was a realist Dont believe it unless you can
  see it!
• Wrote The Republic, which stated that the wealthy
  must always have control of the state

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ARISTOTLE

• Greek philosopher
• Wrote 200 books on astronomy and political
  science at his school, Lyceum
• Believed a good government should have a balance
  of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy

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PERICLES

• Known as the Father of the Golden Age
• Allowed Greek culture to thrive and encouraged
  artists, philosophers and scientists to work
  freely

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PHEIDIPPEDES

• Delivered the news that the Athenians had won at
  Marathon (Persian War) but the rest of the
  Persian army was heading for Athens
• Ran 280 miles in 4 days before dying of exhaustion

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CLEISTHENES

• Created a constitution for Greece
• Created the Council of 500 who made 90 of the
  decisions for Greece

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DRACO

• Wrote an extreme code of laws that everyone had
  to abide by written down!

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SOLON

• Cancelled all land debts and freed debtors from
  slavery
• Allowed all men of Greece to participate in the
  Assembly

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HOMER

• A Bard of the dark ages
• Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey an account of
  how the Trojan War played out

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HEINRICH SCHLIEMANN

• Found the city of Troy, which made the Trojan War
  a reality, not a myth

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PEISISTRATUS

• Divided large estates of rich and gave the land
  to the poor
• Gave poor jobs building temples and buildings

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DARIUS I

• Persian leader who tried to conquer Greece
• Lost at the Battle of Marathon

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PHIDIAS

• Sculpted the Parthenon and the statue of Athena
  inside the Parthenon

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AESCHYLUS

• Greek playwright
• Wrote Greek tragedies serious plays with an
  unhappy ending
• Wrote Oresteia moral stated that in punishment,
  law rules not revenge

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SOPHOCLES

• Greek playwright
• Wrote tragedies
• Oedipus Rex king is forced to kill his father
  and marry his mother by the gods

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EURIPIDES

• Wrote Greek Tragedies
• Rarely put gods and goddesses in plays focused
  on man

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HERODOTUS

• Greek historian
• Known as the Father of History
• Wrote Historia, a book with great detail about
  the Persian war

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THUCYDIDES

• Greek historian
• Wrote a book with great detail about the
  Peloponnesian war

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THALES

• Greek Scientist
• Studied and wrote about the solar eclipse

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HIPPOCRATES

• Made advancement in medicine
• First to pinpoint bad hygiene as a spreader of
  diseases

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PYTHAGORAS

• Greek mathematician
• Worked with Geometry and developed a theorem that
  shows the relationship between the angles of a
  triangle

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PHILIP II

• King of Macedonia that built an army to conquer
  Greece
• Father of Alexander the Great

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ERATOSTHENES

• Greek scientist
• Estimated the earths circumference just 1
  percent off!

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ARCHIMEDES

• Invented the pulley, cylinder screw, and the
  lever all made jobs much easier to do!

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EUCLID

• Greek Scientist
• Wrote The Elements of Geometry organized
  elements of Geometry

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XERXES

• Persian ruler, son of Darius I
• Attempted to destroy Greece but was defeated in
  the Persian wars

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MYRON

• Sculpted The Discus Thrower
• Showed complete and minute detail of athletes body

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DEMOCRITUS

• Greek Scientist
• First to find and name an atom- a solid particle
  of matter

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ALEXANDER THE GREAT

• Son of King Philip II
• Conquered Greece for Macedonian and blended the
  two cultures
• Great military commander who conquered all of
  Persian Empire