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The Greek Olympics began as a festival for Zeus. The Olympians would start off with a footrace and take part in religious ceremonies and processions.
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He was born around 525 B.C. writing a play about the Persian Wars and a trilogy, "The Oresteia". He wrote around a total of 80 plays with only 7 lasting today.
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The Persian War was deadly, that included the rivals of the city-states of Greece and the Persians. The Greeks won from all the useful plans to get back at Xerxes (the Persian king).
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Sophocles was only 30 years younger than Aeschylus but played an outstanding lead role of the victory of The Salamis battle over the Persian. When he started writing plays he soon became rivals with Aeschylus. His play, "Oedipus the King" made him very famous.
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He was born around 485 B.C. Eventually he received less awards then he wanted, even though he wrote around 80-90 plays.The Athenian audiences made him very popular.
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The Golden age introduced a great defensive force called the Delian League. This defensive force protected the city-states of Greece against Persia. Including in that active moment were Athens and other city-states other than Sparta. The Delian League (The Golden Age of Athens), lasted for only 75 years.
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Socrates was one of the greatest Athenian philosophers of all time. He fought in the Peloponnesian War when he was a young man. Most of his philosophical ideas became from his student, Plato's writings. He wrote nothing down but he was one of the first to study Ethics. when we think of Socrates, we think of Greek philosophy.
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Usually his plays made fun of statesman similar to Pericles, dramatists including Euripides, and philosophers just like Socrates. He lived from 445 B.C.-380 B.C.
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Plato was a student of Socrates and fled from Athens because he didn't feel welcomed since his teacher has been executed. Later in 387 B.C., he opened up a school called, the Academy. It was then shut down because it did not teach Christianity. He recorded conversations that Socrates had with other foreigners. Plato started teaching philosophy to other people including Aristotle.
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Alexander the Great was one Aristotle's students and he was the son of King Phillip II. When his father was killed, he became king when he was only 20. He attacked the Persians in 334 B.C. and surprisingly won, because he was outnumbered by the Persians!
