Pheidon

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Flourished	c.700 BCE - c.651 BCE

Aristogeiton

Greek tyrannicide

Demetrius of Scepsis

Greek scholar

Nesiotes

Greek sculptor

Philostratus the Younger

Greek author

Ion of Chios

Greek poet

Aristotle

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Socrates

Socrates

Greek philosopher

Plato

Plato

Greek philosopher

Homer

Homer

Greek poet

Euripides

Euripides

Greek dramatist

Pericles

Pericles

Athenian statesman

Thucydides manuscript, 3rd century bc (Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, P. Hamburg 163).

Thucydides

Greek historian

Plutarch

Plutarch

Greek biographer

Sophocles

Sophocles

Greek dramatist

Demosthenes

Demosthenes

Greek statesman and orator

Alexis Tsipras

Alexis Tsipras

prime minister of Greece

Pindar

Greek poet

Aeschylus

Greek dramatist

Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.

Xenophon

Greek historian

Archimedes

Archimedes

Greek mathematician

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