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Also Known As	Mnesarete
Flourished	c.400 BCE - c.301 BCE • Thespiae • ancient Greece

Aristogeiton

Greek tyrannicide

Ion of Chios

Greek poet

Demetrius of Scepsis

Greek scholar

Philostratus the Younger

Greek author

Nesiotes

Greek sculptor

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Socrates

Greek philosopher

Plato

Greek philosopher

Homer

Greek poet

Euripides

Greek dramatist

Alexis Tsipras

prime minister of Greece

Pericles

Athenian statesman

Thucydides

Greek historian

Plutarch

Greek biographer

Sophocles

Greek dramatist

Demosthenes

Greek statesman and orator

Pindar

Greek poet

Aeschylus

Greek dramatist

Xenophon

Greek historian

Archimedes

Greek mathematician and inventor

Marble bust of Alexander the Great, in the British Museum, London, England. Hellenistic Greek, 2nd-1st century BC. Said to be from Alexandria, Egypt. Height: 37 cm.

Ancient Greece

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