Which is your favourite ancient greek personality among all those who marked the greek history?

Question

Mine is Hippocrates, the father of Medecine..

Answer 1

hippocrates father of medicine,,his oath is still in action worldwide.,,,among all practising doctors...as an a honor and remembrance to his efforts and achievements in medicine,,

Answer 2

Socrates, Aristoteles, Evripides, Eshilos, and Hippocrates(Medecine)

Answer 3

If 'ancient' was not part of your question, in recent history Melina Mercouri and Theodorakis would have been my answer.. with many others and for so many reasons.
As we men always try & think to mark history also in ancient times, mainly women were at the rudder.. in ancient Greek mythology Hera & Aphrodite were amongst those that were decisive in a very strong way.
As your good but complicated question asks for 'greek personalities marking Greek history', throughout the many years I visited Greece and the islands, I recall and respect so many proud monuments with names all refering to the1821-1827 period.
I respect all other answers above; and indeed Hippocrates made quite a difference for all of us. Kos was the first island I ever visited.
Grtz

Answer 4

Maria for me is
Pythagoras of Samos,
was a Greek philosopher who made important developments in mathematics, astronomy, and the theory of music. He is often revered as a great mathematician, mystic and scientist; however some have questioned the scope of his contributions to mathematics or natural philosophy.
His name led him to be associated with Pythian Apollo; Aristippus explained his name by saying, "He spoke (agor-) the truth no less than did the Pythian (Pyth-)," and Iamblichus tells the story that the Pythia prophesied that his pregnant mother would give birth to a man supremely beautiful, wise, and of benefit to humankind.
He is best known for the Pythagorean theorem which bears his name. Known as "the father of numbers," Pythagoras made influential contributions to philosophy and religious teaching in the late 6th century BC.
Because legend and obfuscation cloud his work even more than with the other pre-Socratics, one can say little with confidence about his life and teachings. We do know that Pythagoras and his students believed that everything was related to mathematics and that numbers were the ultimate reality and, through mathematics, everything could be predicted and measured in rhythmic patterns or cycles. According to Iamblichus, Pythagoras once said that "number is the ruler of forms and ideas and the cause of gods and demons."
He was the first man to call himself a philosopher, or lover of wisdom. Many of the accomplishments of Plato, Aristotle and Copernicus were based on the ideas of Pythagoras. Unfortunately, very little is known about Pythagoras because none of his writings have survived.
Many of the accomplishments credited to Pythagoras may actually have been accomplishments of his colleagues and successors.

Answer 5

Altought I risk to be sound a bit banal, my vote goes for Alexander the Great (or to use his "proper" title Alexander III) for I think that it was the perfect combination of a manof action (perhaps the best general ever lived and a very capable statesman) plus a man of great vision, ahead from this time. Had he lived just fitneen years or so he could easily destroyed the nascent Romans and the Cartagineneas and so the Greek civilisation would reach directly the West without the intervention of Romans and (their attendant cruelty)

Answer 6

Hi Leonarda,

I have different ones for different achievements:
Platon for his philosophies, Homer for his great writings, Alexander the Great for his military strategies and Hippocrates for medicine and the beautiful tree!
When it comes to Greek Gods:
Poseidon, Zeus, Artemis and Hera!

Answer 7

Well I would go for Apollo because he was the God of Light and Sun, and he is said to be the handsomest of all... ;)
Poseidon is also one of my favourites, because he had so much power in his hands. He was the God of the seas and of the earth (as in the earthquakes).
And last but not least Athena the godess of wisdom and Perikles during whose reign, some of the most beautiful monuments in Athens were built.

Answer 8

I've got to go with Socrates ... perhaps the West's greatest deconstructionist.*

As a Buddhist, I'm also fond of (the paradox of) Theseus' ship ... but I don't suppose that quite qualifies as a personality.

And props to both the Zeno's (Zeno of Elea -- student of Permenides; and Zeno of Citium--the Stoic), and to Diogenes the Cynic.

AND ... I would have said Plotinus ... but he didn't live in Greece.
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Answer 9

Platon ofcourse...His Philosophical system is still alive and vivid, as through the Neo-Platonic philosofers influenced even Christian religion, transforming it from a Jewish herecy to an independent religion, worthy to survive.

If I may, I can add Aristotle too, as his work and ideas have been preserved by the Arabs, who created the famous School of Ispachan based on his theories and teaching, ald later, through the Arab Kingdom of Granada trasmitted this knowledge to Europe.

Edit: Vardarska intruders, before answering (unenvited as always) get some elementary education and good manners...

Answer 10

Antigone! She was a brave woman with strong values.


Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, and her best known story is in the Antigone of Sophocles, which is one part of the Theban Saga.
After Oedipus left the throne, and when his two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, came of age, they agreed to rule Thebes in alternate years. Eteocles, at the end of his first year of rule, reneged on the agreement and refused to step down. Polynices then raised an army of traditional enemies of Thebes and led them against his city. (This story is recounted in Aeschylus' play Seven Against Thebes.) The battle ends with the defeat of the invading army, but Eteocles and Polynices are both dead, killed by each other's hand. Creon, who now assumes power in Thebes, declares that, as he was the protector of the city, Eteocles' body will be properly buried, but Polynices, because he attacked the city, will be left unburied on the battlefield.

Antigone decides she must disobey, arguing that a law of man which violates religious law is no law at all. She performs a ceremonial burial -- a simple sprinkling of dust over the body -- is apprehended by the guards, and taken before Creon, who decrees that she will herself be buried by being sealed in a cave. Creon's son, Haemon, however, is betrothed to Antigone, and protests her sentence and lectures his father on wise leadership. Creon refuses to change his mind. When the prophet Tiresias informs Creon that the gods are angry with his pronouncement concerning Polynices, he finally relents, but too late. When the cave is opened to retrieve Antigone, she has already hung herself. In his grief and anger, Haemon tries to kill Creon. He fails, and then kills himself instead. Upon his return to the palace, Creon also learns that his wife, Eurydice, killed herself too when she heard what had happened. Thus at the end of the play, Creon is ruler over an orderly city, but he has lost everything.

The Antigone is much admired for being the first and most enduring statement of the conflict between the need for social order and the feeling that on occasion higher law may supersede human law.


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