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thucydideannoun	Relating to, or characteristic of Thucydides.
herodotusnoun	An ancient Greek historian who lived from 484 to 425 BCE.
xenophonnoun	Athenian historian and philosopher born 427 B.C.E. and author of the Anabasis and Memorabilia. He was a pupil of Socrates and became a general during the Persian wars.
pherecydesnoun	An Ancient Greek thinker from the island of Syros, who authored a cosmogony that bridged the mythological thought of Hesiod and pre-Socratic philosophy (fl. 6th century BC)
euripidesnoun	A Greek tragedian (c. 480–406 B.C.E.); Euripides was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens.
xenocratesnoun	(c. 396–314 B.C.E.) An Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, and the second leader (scholarch) of the Platonic Academy from 339 to 314 B.C.E.
livynoun	Titus Livius, a Roman historian
pre-socraticnoun	(historical) Existing in Ancient Greece before the flourishing of the philosopher Socrates (circa 469–399 BCE).
plutarchnoun	The classical historian and essayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 C.E.). Often used as a byword for a biographer, to suggest that the writer is especially skilled or has other attributes associated with Plutarch.
pythagorasnoun	Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC), an Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher.
attic greeknoun	The dialect of Ancient Greek used in Attica, the region surrounding Athens, from 500 to 300 B.C.E., closely related to Ionic Greek and a main contributor to Koine. The language of Thucydides, Plato, Aeschylus, Xenophon, etc.
plinynoun	Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (23–79 AD): an ancient Roman nobleman, scientist and historian, author of Naturalis Historia, "Pliny's Natural History".
four hundrednoun	(US) A list of the people in New York fashionable society during the Gilded Age.
periclesnoun	(historical) An Ancient Greek politician.
sacred warnoun	(history) Any of three wars fought (in 595-585 BCE, 449 BC-448 BCE and 357-346 BCE) by the Amphictyonic Council.
thiasotenoun	(historical) A member of a thiasus in Ancient Greece.
thalesnoun	A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Asia Minor.
ephialtesnoun	(obsolete) an incubus; a nightmare
tyrtaeusnoun	An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a Greek elegiac poet who lived at Sparta about the middle of the 7th century BC.
codrusnoun	(Greek mythology) The last of the semi-mythical kings of Athens (r. ca 1089–1068 BC), an ancient exemplar of patriotism and self-sacrifice.