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Born 378 BCE or 377 BCE • Chios • ancient Greece
Died c.320 BCE
Notable Works “Hellenica” • “Philippica”
Subjects Of Study Greece
Herodotus, detail of a Roman herm probably copied from a Greek original of the first half of the 4th century bce; in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
Herodotus
Greek historian
George Finlay
British historian
Grote, detail of an oil painting by Sir John Everett Millais, 1870; in the Senate House, University of London
George Grote
British historian
Thucydides manuscript
Thucydides
Greek historian
Alexis Tsipras
Alexis Tsipras
prime minister of Greece
Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
Greek historian
Polybius, statue in Vienna.
Polybius
Greek historian
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
prime minister of Greece
Isocrates
Greek orator and rhetorician
Strabo
Strabo
Greek geographer and historian
Venizélos
Eleuthérios Venizélos
prime minister of Greece
Pappus of Alexandria
Greek mathematician
Konstantinos Karamanlis
Greek statesman
Papandreou, George
George Papandreou
prime minister of Greece
Samaras, Antonis
Antonis Samaras
prime minister of Greece
Papandreou, Andreas
Andreas Papandreou
prime minister of Greece
Kapodístrias, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 19th century; in the Historical and Ethnological Museum of Greece, Athens
Ioánnis Antónios, Komis Kapodístrias
Greek statesman
Costas Simitis
prime minister of Greece
Kostas Karamanlis
Kostas Karamanlis
prime minister of Greece
Georgios Papandreou
prime minister of Greece

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