Famous Ancient Greeks - Statistics

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The average score is 13 of 24

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
Athens	Witty philosopher who was sentenced to death	Socrates	100%
Macedon	His son, who became emperor of Persia and began the Hellenistic age	Alexander III	98%
Macedon	Teacher of the above, immense philosopher, mathematician and naturalist	Aristotle	95%
Athens	His pupil, often considered the most influential thinker in history	Plato	95%
Asia Minor	Philosopher-mystic whose mathematical cult continued for centuries after his death	Pythagoras	85%
Magna Graecia	Mathematician from the same town known for the exclamation "Eureka!"	Archimedes	80%
Sparta	King who famously died defending Greece from a Persian invasion	Leonidas	80%
Macedon	Mighty king who put all of Greece under his boot	Philip II	78%
Athens	The first historian	Herodotus	68%
Asia Minor	Lesbian poetess	Sappho	68%
Athens	His successor, often considered the greatest tragedian	Sophocles	59%
Athens	Shrewd politician that always wore a helmet	Pericles	54%
Athens	He punished all crimes by execution	Draco	49%
Athens	Athens' wisest lawgiver	Solon	49%
Asia Minor	The first philosopher	Thales	49%
Athens	Earliest known writer of tragedies	Aeschylus	39%
Athens	Historian of the Peloponnesian war credited for his advanced insights and intellect	Thucydides	37%
Asia Minor	Obscure philosopher whose ideas about fire and motion are still ardently studied	Heraclitus	34%
Sparta	Man (perhaps mythically) credited with creating the laws of Sparta	Lycurgus	24%
Magna Graecia	Thinker who believed that motion is an illusion and is credited with the oldest preserved philosophic argument	Parmenides	24%
Asia Minor	Poet famed for his celebration of love and drinking	Anacreon	12%
Sparta	General who died in the war against Athens and became venerated as a demigod	Brasidas	7%
Sparta	Perhaps Greece's oldest lyric poet	Alcman	5%
Magna Graecia	Brutal tyrant of Syracuse at whose court Damocles served	Dionysius I	5%

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