50 Classical-era figures

Emperors, queens, senators, soldiers, writers and rebels from the Classical era in the Mediterranean and West Asian region.

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Hint	Answer
Crossed the Rubicon	Julius Caesar
Founded the Academy	Plato
Death by asp	Cleopatra
Founded Achaemenid empire	Cyrus
Greatest conqueror	Alexander
First Roman emperor	Augustus
Marched with elephants	Hannibal
Led the 300	Leonidas
'The Great' triumverate member	Pompey
Roman orator	Cicero
King of Macedon	Phillip
Teacher of Alexander	Aristotle
Ruled Rome at its greatest extent	Trajan
Queen of Carthage	Dido
Caesar's assassin	Brutus
Wife of Augustus	Livia
Wall builder	Hadrian
Ode writer	Horace
Gladiator rising leader	Spartacus
Recorded Vesuvius eruption	Pliny the Elder
Physician to emperors	Galen
Rich by Minting first gold coins	Croesus
"And Carthage must be destroyed"	Cato the Wise
Wrote 'Medea' and 'Electra'	Euripides
Queen of Palmyra	Zenobia
Roman dictator	Sulla
Leader of Athens	Pericles
King of the visigoths	Alaric
Father of philosophy	Socrates
Richest triumverate member	Crassus
Wrote 'Metamorphoses'	Ovid
Unsuccessfully invaded Greece	Xerxes
The blind poet	Homer
Tribal invader of Italy	Attila
'Eureka!'	Archimedes
Remade Roman empire in Byzantium	Constantine
Assyrian destroyer of Babylon	Sennacherib
Athenian general and historian	Thucydides
Father of history/Father of lies	Herodotus
British rebel	Boudica
Wrote 'Oedipus Rex'	Sophocles
Phoenician king of Tyre	Hiram
Historian of the Punic wars	Livy
Early doctor known for an oath	Hippocrates
Alexandria's Roman thinker	Ptolemy
Massacre of the innocents	Herod
Wrote 'The Aeneid'	Virgil
Athenian tyrant	Hippias
Ruled Persia at its greatest extent	Darius
Rude Latin poems	Catullus

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