| 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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