| Asclepius | Medicine | Revered as a god, might not be historical |
| Galen | Medicine | Wrote work of medicine used for over a thousand years |
| Hippocrates | Medicine | Hippocratic oath (recite) |
| Anaxagoras | Astronomy | Eclipses |
| Socrates | Philosophy | Socratic method of teaching; "All I know is I know nothing"; Recite his prayer to Pan |
| Plato | Philosophy | Founder of the Academy |
| Aristotle | Philosophy | Syllogism, logic, teacher of Alexander the Great |
| Pythagoras | Mathematics | Pythagorean theorem |
| Euclid | Mathematics | Parallel lines, shortest distance between two points |
| Archimedes | Engineering | "Eureka" story, Archimedes' screw, levers and pulleys |
The student should be able to complete the following:
- Name the seven wonders of the ancient world.
- Draw parallel lines and explain what "parallel" means.
- Give an example of a syllogism.
- Show how an eclipse happens.
- Explain why Socrates was killed.
- Give an example of following the Hippocratic Oath.
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