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Classical World Figures from Greece
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Alexander the Great
-356–-323Other
He conquered half the known world before thirty, then died in a palace at thirty-two with no clear heir and no plan for what happened next.
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Aristotle
-384–-322Other
He was Plato's student and Alexander the Great's teacher — and the ideas he developed in between shaped how the Western world thought for the next two thousand years.
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