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Europe in the Ancient World historical figures
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17 figures
Pericles
Statesman & general
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Julius Caesar
General & dictator
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Alexander the Great
King of Macedon
Euclid
Mathematician
Archimedes
Mathematician, physicist & engineer
Pythagoras
Philosopher & mathematician
Socrates
Philosopher
Aristotle
Philosopher & polymath
Plato
Philosopher
Attila the Hun
Ruler of the Huns
Leonidas I
King of Sparta
Augustus
First Roman emperor
Marcus Aurelius
Roman emperor & Stoic philosopher
Constantine the Great
Roman emperor
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Herodotus
Historian
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