Whos Who greece

Alexander the Great

born 356, student of Aristotle, assumed father Philip’s role and continued conquest of Persian empire before early death.

Hippocrates of Cos

460, founder of medical school, credited for 60 treatises comprising the “Hippocratic Corpus”

Homer

If he did exist, it was in 8th century BCE. Credited as author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Pericles

495, Athenian democratic statesman, very influential and well connected to the imperial building program.

Plato

Student of Socrates, opened academy in 385, all known dialogue extant together with some probably falsely attributed.

Pythagoras

530, started quasi-religious movement avoiding animal-blood sacrifice, mostly concerned with number theory and astronomy.

Sophocles

496, Athenian tragedian and politician, credited with writing 123 plays of which 7 survive.