Greek People-Places-Events
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- Homer
- A great Greek poet
- Solon
- A reform-minded Athenian aristocrat
- Cleisthenes
- An Athenian reformer who created a council of five hundred
- Pericles
- A leading political figure during the "Golden Age" of Athens
- Socrates
- A Greek philosopher, sculpture, and teacher
- Plato
- Considered to be the greatest philosopher in the Western civilization
- Aristotle
- A student/pupil of Plato who wrote on subjects such as ethics, politics, logic, etc.
- Alexander the Great
- King of Macedonia who took over a large empire and helped spread Greek culture
- Mycenae
- An early Greek city-state or center of civilation
- Troy
- City that was sacked in Homer's epic "The Iliad"
- Sparta
- A powerful, militaristic Greek city-state
- Athens
- A powerful Greek city-state
- Macedonia
- A region to the North of the Greek city-states
- Alexandria
- A center for the spread of the Hellenistic culture