Statistics for Famous People from the 5th century BC

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Philosopher, author of the Republic	Plato	96%
Athenian philosopher, who was sentenced to death	Socrates	88%
"Father of History"	Herodotus	83%
Spartan king, who was killed by the Persians at Thermopylae	Leonidas	79%
"Father of Medicine", who was credited with coining the oath of doctors	Hippocrates	75%
Persian King, who was defeated at the Battles of Salamis and Plataea	Xerxes	75%
Important Athenian statesman, who caused the Peleponesian War	Pericles	58%
"The Father of Comedy", author of The Clouds and The Frogs	Aristophanes	54%
Author of Oedipus Rex	Sophocles	54%
Author of Medea and Electra	Euripides	42%
Athenian commander of the Battle of Salamis	Themistocles	42%
Inventor of the Paradox of Motion and father of dialactics	Zeno of Elea	42%
Roman Statesman, a big city in Ohio is named after him	Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus	38%
Inventor of the atomic theory	Democritus	33%
Founder of ontology, believed that nothing changes	Parmenides	25%
Build the statue of Zeus at Olympia	Phidias	21%
Important Spartan general in the Peleponesian War	Lysander	17%