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Greek colonies and communities have been historically established in most corners of the Mediterranean, but Greeks have always been centered around the Aegean Sea, where the Greek language has been spoken since the Bronze Age. Greek people have greatly influenced and contributed to culture, arts, exploration, literature, philosophy, politics, architecture, music, mathematics, science, technology, cuisine, and sports, both historically and contemporary. Let's take a look to some important figures of the Greek Civilization.

Category: History

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Theodoros Kolokotronis (born at 3 April 1770 – died at 4 February 1843) was a Greek general and the pre-eminent leader of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire. Kolokotronis' ...

Domain: History; Category: European history

Sophocles (born 497/6 BC – died winter 406/5 BC) is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or ...

Domain: History; Category: Ancient Greece

Socrates (born at 470/469 BC – died at 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the ...

Domain: History; Category: Ancient Greece

Rigas Feraios or Rigas Velestinlis, born Antonios Kyriazis, pronounced also known as Konstantinos or Constantine Rhigas;(born at 1757 – died at June 24, 1798) was a Greek writer, political ...

Domain: History; Category: European history

Pythagoras of Samos (born at 570 BC – died at 495 BC) was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. Most of the information about ...

Domain: History; Category: Ancient Greece

Plato born at 428/427 or 424/423 BC – died at 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece. He was also a mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of ...

Domain: History; Category: Ancient Greece

Pericles who was born at 495 and died at 429 BC, was arguably the most prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age— specifically the time between the ...

Domain: History; Category: Ancient history

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