Here is one example: Demosthenes (fifth century).
Barely adequate answer: Athenian general.
Somewhat more adequate: Athenian general active in the Peloponnesian war.
Better: Athenian general during Peloponnesian war, responsible for Athenian capture of Pylos in first part of war, later involved in defeat in Sicily and died there.
Best of all: add details about why the capture of Pylos was a big deal (e.g., that the Spartans were willing to make peace to get it back, especially since Demosthenes [and Cleon] also captured a number of Spartans at the same time) and explain that the Athenian disaster in Sicily came about against Demosthenes' express advice and wishes. Add dates.

Essays.

Herodotus and Ionian philosophical inquiry: Herodotus, a native of Halicarnassus in Asia Minor, seemed to have inexhaustible interest in people, places, and things; one may call him another sort of Ionian natural philosopher (if you don't agree, start arguing now). Some of the natural philosophers tried to evolve what we would now call a theory of everything; in the historical or political realm, does Herodotus attempt the same sort of inquiry or not, and how far in that direction does he go?

Thucydides and Aristophanes on Athenian character and behavior in wartime: what are the similarities and differences in the ways that Thucydides and Aristophanes, Athenians both, describe the Athenians both in their own voices and in others'? Is there subtext in Aristophanes (or for that matter in Thucydides) which is apparently at odds with the surface narrative?

Extra credit: I have said in class more than once that for the Greeks there were two general types of prominent person, Achilles and Odysseus. Into which type does Hesiod belong? If to neither, does this mean there is a tertium quid ('third something') and if there is, what are its characteristics?