Famous People & Personalities

Topics in this section look at famous people and personalities of Ancient Greece.

	Leaders & Rulers
	Kings & Queens
	Heroes
	Athletes
	The Minoans
	The Mycenaeans
	Mycenaean Warriors and Traders
	Alexander the Great
	Famous Mathematicians (Archimedes, Euclid, Pythagoras)
	The Philosophers ( Aristotle, Plato, Socrates)
	The Playwrights ( Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides, Sophocles)

Topic Resources

Hercules - Greece's popular Hero

The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean

The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean

The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean

	Alexander III of Macedon - 356 B.C. - 323 B.C.
	Alexander's defeat of the The Persians
	The Army of Alexander the Great

	Archimedes - Famous for his mathematical Theorems and philosophies - discovered pi
	Euclid - Mathematician and father of Geometry

	Greek Women Philosophers
	The death of Socrates.

	Aristophanes - Great writer of Comedy plays, many which are still preformed today
	Euripides - a comic dramatist