Who is a figure of historical significance for greece??

Answer 1

- Alexander the great, Pericles, Plato, Socrates, Aristoteles from ancient times
- Kapodistrias and Venizelos, politicians of the modern greek state (well, not so modern, K. was the first greek governor in 1830's and V. prime minister in the 1915's.)

Answer 2

Given the long history of Greece and the fact that you do not put any time limit on the question and no parameters(like what do you mean by historical significance) I would say a dime a dozen. Like
Heraclitus, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Herodotus, Pericles, Archimedes, Phillip II, Alexander the great, Leonidas of Sparta, Drakon, Solon, Demosthenes, Praxiteles, Antioch, Parmenion, Ptolemy, Iktinus, Miltiades. These are just a few of the ancients to be followed by a string of Byzantines- Nikiforos Fokas, Basil the II, Theodosios, El Greko, Kornaros etc. Modern Greece- Adamandios Korais, Rigas Fereos, Theodoros Kolokotronis, Miaulis, Kapodistrias, E Venizelos, K Karamanlis, A Papandreou, Kazantzakis, Kavafis. These names are a mixture of leaders, generals, artists, scientists, law givers, philosophers.

Answer 3

Thucydides (circa 460 BC – c. 400 BC), Greek Θουκυδίδης, Thoukudídēs) was an ancient Greek historian, and the author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC. This is widely considered the first work of scientific history, describing the human world as produced by men acting from ordinary motives, without the intervention of the gods.

Answer 4

There are many...

Some of them :

Venizelos for modern Greece.
Constantine the Great for medieval Greece.
Alexander the Great for ancient Greece.

Answer 5

Even without the movie, Leonidas. His stand at Thermopylae saved the infant Western civilization.

Answer 6

Do you mean people that are still active and alive?
Mikis Theodorakis is one of them for sure (not only artistically, but historically significant).

Answer 7

Melina mercury who reminds us of aspacia of Pericles and Theodora of Justinian