Famous People from the 5th century BC

Guess the Names of these famous people, who lived in the 5th century BC

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Hint	Answer
Philosopher, author of the Republic	Plato
Founder of ontology, believed that nothing changes	Parmenides
"Father of History"	Herodotus
Athenian commander of the Battle of Salamis	Themistocles
Inventor of the atomic theory	Democritus
Spartan king, who was killed by the Persians at Thermopylae	Leonidas
Build the statue of Zeus at Olympia	Phidias
Persian King, who was defeated at the Battles of Salamis and Plataea	Xerxes
Author of Oedipus Rex	Sophocles
Important Athenian statesman, who caused the Peleponesian War	Pericles
Inventor of the Paradox of Motion and father of dialactics	Zeno of Elea
Roman Statesman, a big city in Ohio is named after him	Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
"The Father of Comedy", author of The Clouds and The Frogs	Aristophanes
Athenian philosopher, who was sentenced to death	Socrates
Author of Medea and Electra	Euripides
"Father of Medicine", who was credited with coining the oath of doctors	Hippocrates
Important Spartan general in the Peleponesian War	Lysander