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Describe the purposes and functions of the lyceum, the gymnasium, and the Library of Alexandria, and identify the major accomplishments of the ancient Greeks. (C, H) <ul><li>Thales (science)</li><li>Pythagoras and Euclid (mathematics)</li><li>Hippocrates (medicine)</li><li>Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle (philosophy)</li><li>Herodotus, Thucydides, Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides (history, poetry, and drama)</li><li>the Parthenon, the Acropolis, and the Temple of Apollo (architecture)</li><li>the development of the first complete alphabet, with symbols representing both consonants and vowels</li></ul>