Famous Greeks Photos

Several Greeks have left their marks on Western Civilization and have been memorialized in art & literature down through history.

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Homer
(8th or 7th C BCE) author Iliad + Odyssey		 Portrait head of poet Homer Roman copy of Greek original at Glyptothek. Munich, Germany Deification of Homer painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres at Louvre Museum. Paris, France Sèvres porcelain plate imitating antique cameo of Penelope caught unwinding her weaving in the Odyssey by Jean-Marie Degault at Sèvres National Ceramic Museum. Paris, France
Socrates
(c470-399 BCE) Athenian Philosopher		 Portrait head of philosopher Socrates Roman copy of Greek original by Lysippus of Athens at Glyptothek. Munich, Germany Plato
(c428-347 BCE) Athenian Philosopher		 Portrait head of philosopher Plato Roman copy of Greek original by Silanion of Athens at Glyptothek. Munich, Germany
Aristotle
(384-322 BCE) Philosopher teacher of Alexander the Great		 Portrait head of Aristotle at Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna, Austria Alexander the Great
(356-323 BCE) Macedonian world conqueror		 Silver tetradrachm coin with head of Alexander the Great minted in Amphipolis at Getty Museum Villa. Malibu, CA
Praxiteles
(395-330 BCE) Athenian sculptor		 Marble Aphrodite aka "Venus d'Arles" from antique theater of Arles, France perhaps after original by Praxiteles of Athens at Louvre Museum. Paris, France Archimedes
(c287-212 BCE) Greek physicist		 Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes painting by Benjamin West at Yale Center for British Art. New Haven, CT
Other Famous Ancient Greeks Carved portrait heads of Thucydides, Demosthenes, Socrates & Menander at Trier Archaeological Museum. Trier, Germany Marble portrait head of Athenian playwright Euripides at Neues Museum. Berlin, Germany Marble portrait head of Athenian stoic philosopher Zeno of Citium at Neues Museum. Berlin, Germany
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