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Euclid was a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "Father of Geometry".
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Alexander garnered the support of the Macedonian Army and eliminated his enemies to become king and leader of the Corinthian League.
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Hippocrates of Kos was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles, and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.
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Leonidas I, was a Greek warrior king of the Greek city-state of Sparta. He led the Spartan forces during the Second Persian War and is remembered for his death at the Battle of Thermopylae.
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He is credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athens and setting it on a democratic footing in 508/7 BC.
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Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and has been credited as the founder of the movement called Pythagoreanism.
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The Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) made significant and lasting contributions to nearly every aspect of human knowledge, from logic to biology to ethics and aesthetics.
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Plato was a philosopher and mathematician in Classical Greece, and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
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He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets.
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Pericles was arguably the most prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age— specifically the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars.
