mc5 - It's all Greeks to Me

We had a game once upon a time where we catalogued the names of some of the lesser-known Knights of the Round Table, such as Sir Kit Breaker, Sir Gycal Truss, Sir Monon de Mounte and so forth. I thought it might be educational to go further back, to Greek times, and list a few of them. John Cleese, Androcles and Pericles may be quite well-known, but what about the tailors Euripides and Eumenides, for example? Extra points will be given for providing some biographical details on these long-forgotten fellows.

(Winning move unaltered.)

NotJohn

Well, ahead of his time, this philosopher saw the possibility of breaking down tasks into simple component parts 'such that they could be performed by an engine devoid of reason, thus releasing the wise man to pursue the exercise of the mind' Alas he was ahead of his time and it was 2000 years before the realisation of the ideas of Spiningenes

Raak

Phlytippa left her rubbish all over the place.

Raak

If a Greek traveller found, in some deserted place, strange glyphs painted on a rock or carved on a tree, he would presume that nature spirits -- the kilroi -- were there.

CdM

Lendusmorples is believed to be a direct ancestor of the current Finance Minister

Raak

Chismias was a bureaucrat known for contemptuously dismissing unfavoured petitioners.