18 Famous Ancient Greeks

I. Alexander the Great

Map of Alexander's conquests

II. Aratos

The constellation Dioskouroi

III. Aristotle (painting by Rembrandt)

Ancient Manuscript of Aristotle's Constitution of the Athenians

IV. Cleopatra VII (an ancient statue)

"Antony and Cleopatra", by Andrea Casali

V. Diogenes

"Diogenes and Alexander," print by Salvator Rosa (1662)

VI. Euripides

Scene from Euripides' Bacchae

VII. Herakleitos

Herakleitos and Democritus (another ancient Greek philosopher, from a Dutch book, 1644)

VIII.  Hesiod

IX. Leonidas

The Persian march into Greece

Thermopylae

X. Lykourgos

Map of Sparta and her allies

XI. Menander (fresco from Pompeii)

A scene from one of Menander's plays (Roman mosaic)

XII. Homer

Scene from the Iliad

Scene from the Odyssey

XIII. Perikles

The Athenian Empire under Perikles

The Acropolis

XIV. Plato

Plato's Academy (Roman mosaic)

Plato and Aristotle, by Raphael

XV. Pythagoras (17th-century woodcut)

Meditation on the Theorem of Pythagoras. Installation, Marilena Bonomo Gall., Bari, 1972

XVI. Sappho

Sappho and Alkaios

XVII. Sokrates

"The Death of Sokrates," by David (1787)

XVIII. Thales (Roman fresco)

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