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Apollo Belvedere on an Apollo 17 mission patch of the last and most successful mission to the Moon in December 1972

Craters on the moon named after ancient Greeks. The area of these craters combined is larger than that of the area of Modern Greece!!

AGATHARCHIDES crater
48
km diameter
19.8S – 30.9W
Agatharchides (?-150) BC Geographer


AGRIPPA crater
44
km diameter
4.1N – 10.5E
Agrippa
(c. 92) AD Astronomer. Some say due to its proximity to the crater Julius Caesar
it is named after Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (63-12 BC), a Roman general and statesman.

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ALEXANDER crater
88
km diameter
40.3N – 13.5E
Alexander the Great (356-323) BC

ANAXAGORAS crater
50 km diameter
2350 mt height walls
73.4N – 10.1W
In the northern lunar regions

Anaxagoras (500-428) BC

Astronomer

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ANAXIMANDER crater
6
7 km diameter
2800 mt height walls
66.9N – 51.3W
North - west lunar region

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ANAXIMENES crater
80
km diameter
72.5N – 44.5W
Anaximenes
(585-528) BC Astronomer


APOLLONIUS crater

53 km diameter
1700 mt height walls
4.5N – 61.1E
Southern of Crisium sea

Apollonius of Perga 3rd century BC, mathematician

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ARATUS crater
10
km diameter
23.6N – 4.5E

Aratus of Soli

ARCHIMEDES crater
82
km diameter
2060 mt height walls
29.7
N - 4W
East of Imbrium sea and below this crater ARCHIMEDES rima
169 km lenght 27°N - 4°W
From Archimedes crater to southern hilly region

The other two craters are Aristillus and Autolycus

Archimedes (287-212) BC

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ARCHYTAS crater
31 km diameter
2350 mt height walls
58.7N – 5.0E
Northern of Frigoris sea

Archytas, (428-350/347) BC

Mathematician

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ARISTARCHUS crater
23.7
N – 47.4W
40 km diameter
Aristarchus, astronomer (310-230)BC

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ARISTILLUS crater
33.9
N – 1.2E
55
km diameter
Astronomer (c.280 )BC

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ARISTOTELES crater
87
km diameter
3700 mt height walls
50.2N – 17.4E
Northern of Caucasus mounts
Aristotle, Philosopher, Scientist (383-322) BC

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AUTOLYCUS crater
30.7
N – 1.5E
39
km diameter
Autolycus, astronomer (?-c.330 ) BC


BOETHIUS crater
5.67
N – 72.3E
10
km diameter
Physicist (c. 480-524AD)



CALLIPUS crater
38.9
N – 10.7E
32
km diameter
Callipus of Cyzicus, Astronomer (c. 330 BC)


CLEOMEDES crater
125 km diameter
3000 mt height walls
27.7N – 55.5E
North east region, between Geminus crater and Crisium sea

Astronomer (?-50)BC

CLEOSTRATUS crater
60.4N – 77.0W
62
km diameter
Astronomer (?-500)BC


CONON crater
21.6N – 2.0E
21
km diameter
CONON
rima
30 km lenght
18N - 2E
In the Appennines mounts, from the Conon crater to south direction
Conon of Samos (c. 260 BC)
Astronomer

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DEMOCRITUS crater
35 km diameter
1950 mt height walls
62.3N – 35.0E
North east lunar field, between Gartner and Arnold craters

Democritus (460-360) BC

Astronomer, Mathematician, Physicist

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DIONYSIUS crater
2.8N – 17.3E
18
km diameter
St. Dionysius the Aeropagite, Astronomer (9-120 AD)


DEMONAX crater
77.9S – 60.8E
128
km diameter
Demonax (?-100)BC Philosopher

DIOPHANTUS crater
19
km diameter
2590 mt height walls
27.6N – 34.3W
Between west Imbrium sea and east Procellarum

Mathematician

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