Alexander the Great		a ten-year war waged by the confederated Greeks under Agamemnon against the Trojans
Aristotle		469?–399 b.c., Athenian philosopher
Odyssey		the greatest Greek warrior in the Trojan War and hero of Homer's Iliad.
Dorians		an epic poem attributed to Homer, describing Odysseus's adventures in his ten-year attempt to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
Socrates		an ancient city in S Greece: the capital of Laconia and the chief city of the Peloponnesus
Trojan War		king of Ithaca; son of Laertes
Plato		c495–429 b.c., Athenian statesman.
Pericles		One of a Hellenic people that invaded Greece around 1100 B.C. and remained culturally and linguistically distinct within the Greek world.
Greece		a republic in S Europe at the S end of the Balkan Peninsula.
Sparta		the supreme deity of the ancient Greeks
Archimedes		356–323 b.c., king of Macedonia 336–323: conqueror of Greek city-states and of the Persian empire from Asia Minor and Egypt to India.
Achilles		427–347 b.c., Greek philosopher
Zeus		384–322 b.c., Greek philosopher: pupil of Plato; tutor of Alexander the Great.
Iliad		287?–212 b.c., Greek mathematician, physicist, and inventor: discovered the principles of specific gravity and of the lever
Odyseus		a Greek epic poem describing the siege of Troy, ascribed to Homer