GREEK TIMELINE

By MsKittyPaws
  • 330

    Euclid

    Euclid
    Euclid was a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "Father of Geometry".
  • 356

    Alexander The Great

    Alexander The Great
    Alexander garnered the support of the Macedonian Army and eliminated his enemies to become king and leader of the Corinthian League.
  • 460

    Hippocrates

    Hippocrates
    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.
  • 540

    Leonidas I

    Leonidas I
    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.
  • 570

    Cleisthenes

    Cleisthenes
    He is credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athens and setting it on a democratic footing in 508/7 BC.
  • 571

    Pythagoras

    Pythagoras
    Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and has been credited as the founder of the movement called Pythagoreanism.

  • Aristotle

    Aristotle
    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.

  • Plato

    Plato
    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.

  • Homer

    Homer
    He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets.

  • Pericles

    Pericles
    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.