Pericles
Pericles is perhaps most famous for his great building projects. He wanted to establish Athens as the leader of the Greek world and…
Important Greek people
Archimedes
Generally considered the greatest mathematician of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time, Archimedes anticipated modern calculus and analysis by…
Sophocles
Sophocles c. 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC) is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than or…
Hippocrates
Hippocrates was born around 460 BC on the island of Kos, Greece. He became known as the founder of medicine and was regarded…
Thucydides
Thucydides was a Greek historian who was born in Alimos between the years 460 and 455 B.C and died between 411…
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας, Aléxandros ho Mégas), was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty. …
Plato
Plato is considered by many to be the most important philosopher who ever lived. He is known as the father of idealism in…
Aristotle
Aristotle (c. 384 B.C. to 322 B.C.) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist who is still considered one of the greatest thinkers…