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Famous Greeks
Famous Greeks
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12/05/2005

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Pythagoras
Definition
-mathematician
-pythagorean thyrum
-identified a pattern for right angles
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Hippocrates
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"Father of Scientific Medicine"
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Plato
Definition
-wrote down what Socrates said and was his student
-made an academy
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Alexander the Great
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-King of Macedonia
-counquered Grece and Persia and tried to unite them
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Pericles
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-leader of Athens for 31 years during its Golden Age
-built the Parthenon
-died from the plauge
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Herodotus
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-"Father of History"
-Greek historian
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Aristotle
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-philosopher and scientist
-Platos student
-said people have a natural desire to learn
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Archimedes
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-wrote about spheres, cylinders, and spirals
-figured out weight of king's crown in a bath
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Homer
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poet who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey
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Euclid
Definition
-Greek mathmatician
-wrote book on geometry
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Aesop
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wrote animal stories called fables that usually taught a lesson
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Thucydides
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a Greek historian who wrote about the Peloponnesian war
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Socrates
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-philosopher
-called the great questioner
-motto:know thyself
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