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Flourished	c.600 BCE - c.522 BCE
Title / Office	tyrant (535BC-522BC), Sámos

Philostratus the Younger

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Demetrius of Scepsis

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Aristogeiton

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Nesiotes

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Aristotle

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Socrates

Greek philosopher

Plato

Greek philosopher

Homer

Greek poet

Euripides

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Alexis Tsipras

prime minister of Greece

Pericles

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Thucydides

Greek historian

Plutarch

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Sophocles

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Demosthenes

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Pindar

Greek poet

Aeschylus

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Xenophon

Greek historian

Archimedes

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