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Greek colonies and communities have been historically established in most corners of the Mediterranean, but Greeks have always been centered around the Aegean Sea, where the Greek language has been spoken since the Bronze Age. Greek people have greatly influenced and contributed to culture, arts, exploration, literature, philosophy, politics, architecture, music, mathematics, science, technology, cuisine, and sports, both historically and contemporary. Let's take a look to some important figures of the Greek Civilization.

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In the Western classical tradition, Homer is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon ...

Domain: History; Category: Ancient history

Leonidas the first who died at 480 BC, was a warrior king of the Greek city-state of Sparta. He led the Spartan forces during the Second Persian War and is remembered for his heroic death at the ...

Domain: History; Category: Ancient history

Pericles who was born at 495 and died at 429 BC, was arguably the most prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age— specifically the time between the ...

Domain: History; Category: Ancient history

Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC (c. 484–425 BC). He has been called "The Father of ...

Domain: History; Category: Ancient history

Hippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates of Kos (who was born at 460 and die at 370 BC), was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles (Classical Greece), and is considered one of the most ...

Domain: History; Category: Ancient history

Sophocles (born 497/6 BC – died winter 406/5 BC) is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or ...

Domain: History; Category: Ancient Greece

Socrates (born at 470/469 BC – died at 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the ...

Domain: History; Category: Ancient Greece

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