Famous Ancient Greeks

[Maximus Decimus]

I was teaching recently about famous Ancient Greeks and I happened to mention who I thought was probably the most famous. Since then I've been on a bit of a quest to find out who it is and remarkably I've found a lot of people can't name one or go for Zeus or Herakles or something like that. My opinion is skewed by having a degree in ancient history.

I've been wording it as: if you were on family fortunes and you were asked 'famous Ancient Greek' who would come into your mind first.

Who would you say?

[hw88]

Aristotle or Pythagoras

[Futtocks]

Socrates? Plato? Arianna Huffington? Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder?

[DavidM]

Jason 

[doc]

Herodotus

[Exiled Townie]

Alexander The Great, Leonidas, Archimedes.

[Derwent]

Nana Mouskouri

[Shadow]

Demis Roussos

[silverback]

Stavros.      Played for Batley.

[bigbaldnmad]

Miltiades

Pheidippides

[Futtocks]

Michael Korkidas must be getting on a bit these days.

[bigbaldnmad]

Just want to add, I would have loved to have studied ancient Greece.

I have spent many years visiting various ancient Greek sites and museums as an aside to my summer holidays.

This year, for my 60th birthday, I ticked one off my bucket list, a visit to the Acropolis and the wonder that is  the Parthenon. Truly amazing place that brought tears to my eyes.

[Number 16]

Olivia Newton John

[Farmduck]

Gotta be Plato. Before he invented the plate, everybody used to eat off the ground.

[The Masked Poster]

If you go to the Hippocrates tree in Kos, it's a bit weird.There's no big signage really and just a sign saying "Tree over there -->" and an ancient tree now propped up with scaffolding. 

I mean, it's a fantastic place and all that but I thought they'd make a bigger deal of it than they do. But I suppose that's Greeks for you. 

[Number 16]

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