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// Greece
#bc
// 9th century B.C.
#p <nat>Greek<o>writer<n>Homer<b>880(25)<d>800(25)
#e <t>writing<au>Homer<tit>Iliad & Odyssey<d>820(25)<c>Greece
// 8th century B.C.
#e <t>disc<n>magnetism & static electricity<d>700<c>Greece<info>attraction of magnetite to iron, and charging of amber
// 7th century B.C.
// 6th century B.C.
#e <t>experiment<n>Greeks study magnetism<c>Greece<d>600
#p <nat>Greek<o>philosopher<o>mathematician<n>Pythagoras<b>565(5)<d>497(1)<info>Ionian
// 5th century B.C.
#e <t>period<n>Golden Age of Greece<d>500<e>320<c>Greece
#e <t>battle<n>Marathon<d>490<c>Marathon
#p <nat>Greek<o>poet<n>Sophocles<b>496<d>406
#p <nat>Greek<o>writer<n>Euripides<b>484<d>406
#p <nat>Greek<o>historian<n>Herodotus<b>484<d>425<info>called the "father of history"
#p <nat>Greek<o>philosopher<n>Socrates<b>469(2)<d>399
#p <nat>Greek<o>physician<n>Hippocrates<b>460(2)<d>365(5)<info>called the "father of medicine"
#p <nat>Greek<o>philosopher<n>Plato<b>427<d>347
// 4th century B.C.
#e <t>use<n>carrier pigeons<c>Greece<d>400
#p <nat>Greek<o>philosopher<n>Aristotle<b>384<d>322
#p <nat>Greek<o>mathematician<n>Euclid<b>375(25)<d>275(25)
#e <t>pub<au>Euclid<tit>Stoicheia (Elements)<d>323
#e <t>pub<au>Euclid<tit>Catoptrics<info>states the law of reflection<d>300(10)
#p <nat>Greek<o>astronomer<n>Aristarchus<c>Samos<b>310(10)<d>230<info>first argued that earth revolves around sun
// 3rd century B.C.
#p <nat>Greek<o>astronomer<n>Eratosthenes<b>276(2)<d>195(2)<c>Alexandria
#e <t>disc<au>Eratosthenes<n>earth's circumference<d>220(20)
#p <nat>Greek<o>philosopher<o>mathematician<o>inventor<n>Archimedes<b>287<d>212<c>Syracuse
#e <t>misc<au>Archimedes<n>Archimedes cries, "Eureka."<d>250
// 2nd century B.C.
#p <nat>Greek<o>astronomer<n>Hipparchus<c>Rhodes<b>160<d>127
#e <t>inv<au>Hipparchus<n>trigonometry<d>150
// 1st century B.C.
#p <nat>Greek<o>astronomer<n>Sosigenes<c>Alexandria<d>20(20)
#e <t>invent<au>Sosigenes<n>the Julian calendar<d>46
#e <t>inv<n>Hero's steam engine<c>Alexandria<d>50
#ad
// 1st century A.D.
#p <nat>Greek<o>historian<n>Plutarch<b>46(2)<d>120(2)