Famous Ancient Greek People

Based on a clue, can you name these famous Greek speaking people from the ancient world?

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Clue	Answer
Blind poet who supposedly wrote "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey"	Homer
Philosopher who drank hemlock when convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens	Socrates
Founder of the Academy of Athens	Plato
Philosopher who has been called the father of logic, biology, rhetoric, and more	Aristotle
She was the last active pharaoh of Egypt	Cleopatra
"Great" conqueror of Persia	Alexander the Great
Father of the above, king of Macedon	Philip II
Mother of the conqueror, who claimed the actual father was Zeus	Olympias
The theory that a² + b² = c² is named for him	Pythagoras
Known as the father of history (also the father of lies)	Herodotus
King who led 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae	Leonidas
Philosopher who commanded the "the ten thousand" Greek mercenaries	Xenophon
His many fables include "The Tortoise and the Hare"	Aesop
Known as the father of geometry	Euclid
Inventor who cried "Eureka!" while sitting in the bathtub	Archimedes
General who was the "first citizen" of Athens during its Golden Age	Pericles
He coined an oath for doctors which is still in use today	Hippocrates
Poet born on Lesbos from whom the term "lesbian" takes its modern connotation	Sappho
Most influential astronomer in history until Copernicus came along	Ptolemy
Playwright who wrote "Antigone" and "Oedipus Rex"	Sophocles

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11 Comments

Level 74

Nov 3, 2021

Great snapshot!

Level 85

Nov 3, 2021

Nice spread of questions. 16/20 on my first effort.

Level 61

Nov 4, 2025

Same here!

+10

Level 78

Dec 29, 2021

Guy goes into a Greek tailor shop with a torn pair of pants. "Euripides?" says the tailor. "Eumenides?" says the customer.

That's a head start for your next quiz on this theme.

Level 71

Jan 4, 2022

I had guessed Aristarchus first, since he was most likely the primary influence on Copernicus' heliocentric model, and was certainly a huge influence on the correct answer. He even calculated the distance from the Earth to the Sun to as good accuracy as the answer, but 400 years earlier. Also, Aristarchus is best known as an astronomer, whereas the correct answer was primarily known as a mathematician. I don't think the correct answer is incorrect, but it might be worth considering rephrasing the hint so that it doesn't leave so much room for interpretation.

Level 61

Nov 4, 2025

Same for me! Great minds think alike?

Level 53

Mar 30, 2022

You could add Pyrrhus the king of Epirus who had two victories against Rome. He lost the third one due to heavy losses.

Level 79

Jan 27, 2023

Calling Herodotus as the "father of lies" is textbook western revisionism lol

Level 80

Oct 16, 2023

Ancient Greece is generally considered to be the bedrock foundation of Western culture, so calling its most well-known historian a liar would seem to be more anti-Western than pro.

Level ∞

Jul 11, 2025

It's kind of a joke. Herodotus was merely reporting what he was told, and often with an appropriate level of skepticism.

There's no reason to think that his histories are bad. They aren't!

Level 38

Sep 3, 2025

Would change Cleopatra to "Cleopatra VII" as there were many famous Cleopatras