Statistics for Famous People from the 5th century BC

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Philosopher, author of the Republic	Plato	94%
Spartan king, who was killed by the Persians at Thermopylae	Leonidas	82%
Athenian philosopher, who was sentenced to death	Socrates	82%
"Father of History"	Herodotus	76%
Persian King, who was defeated at the Battles of Salamis and Plataea	Xerxes	76%
"Father of Medicine", who was credited with coining the oath of doctors	Hippocrates	65%
Important Athenian statesman, who caused the Peleponesian War	Pericles	65%
"The Father of Comedy", author of The Clouds and The Frogs	Aristophanes	59%
Author of Oedipus Rex	Sophocles	47%
Athenian commander of the Battle of Salamis	Themistocles	47%
Author of Medea and Electra	Euripides	41%
Roman Statesman, a big city in Ohio is named after him	Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus	35%
Inventor of the Paradox of Motion and father of dialactics	Zeno of Elea	35%
Inventor of the atomic theory	Democritus	29%
Founder of ontology, believed that nothing changes	Parmenides	29%
Important Spartan general in the Peleponesian War	Lysander	18%
Build the statue of Zeus at Olympia	Phidias	18%