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Famous Greeks

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Social - Grade 6

Mr. Hays / Mrs. Zyskowski

Students will make baseball cards based on famous Greeks.  Many may be found at the following sites, others may be found at the sites listed in the table below:

Sneak Peeks at Famous Greeks - has a majority of the people on your list.

Biographical Dictionary - may search for the famous Greeks on your list.

Biographies : Scientists - Archimedes, Euclid, Hippocrates
Biographies: Literature -  Homer, Sophocles
Biographies: Philisophers - Aristotle, Plato, Socrates
Biographies: Historians & their books - Herodotus, Plutarch, Thucydides

HyperHistory - click on "People" (on the left) and then "Alphabetical Index" (on the right). Then locate the name of the person you are researching from the list in the center of the screen.  These are very short biographies.

Use the main search box in the lower right to search ALL 3 encyclopedias at once

Encyclopedia Americana
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
New Book of Knowledge

The sites below are about specific people from the list

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great Home Page
Alexander the Great Project

Hypatia of Alexandria

Hypatia
Hypatia of Alexandria
Hypatia

Archimedes

Archimedes
Archimedes
Archimedes

Pericles

Pericles
Ancient History: Pericles

Aristophanes

The Great Playwrights
Aristophanes

Plato

Plato and his dialog
Plato and the legacy of Socrates

Aristotle

Aristotle: overview
Aristotle
Plato and the legacy of Socrates: Aristotle

Plutarch

Plutarch
Plutarch

Cleisthenes

Cleisthenes 
Cleisthenes
Cleisthenes

Pythagoras

Pythagoras
Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos

Euclid

Euclid
Euclid of Alexandria
Biography of Euclid

Socrates

Socrates
Socrates
Biography of Socrates

Herodotus

The Historians
Biography of Herodotus
Herodotus

Solon

Who was Solon?
Solon
Solon

Hippocrates

Hippocrates: influence on medicine
Hippocrates
Hippocrates

Sophocles

Sophocles
Sophocles: his life and works
The Great Playrights

Homer

Who was Homer? - The Importance
Homer
Homer

Thucydides

The Historians
Thucydides
Thucydides

 

 

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