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In virtually all fields of human endeavor Athens was so much at the forefront of dynamism and innovation that the products of its most brilliant minds remain not only influential but entirely relevant to this day In the field of medicine the great physician Hippocrates not only advanced the practical knowledge of human anatomy and caregiving but changed the entire face of the medical profession The great philosophers of Athens men like Aristotle Socrates and Plato interrogated themselves with startling complexity about the nature of good and evil questioned the existence of divinity advocated intelligent design and went so far as to argue that all life was composed of infinitesimal particles Great architects and sculptors such as Phidias produced works of art of such breathtaking realism and startling dynamism that they later formed the driving force behind the resurgence of sculpture during the Renaissance and served as masters to artists such as Michelangelo Bernini and Donatello And this does not take into account the host of equally brilliant mathematicians natural philosophers historians astronomers and politicians that the citys great schools nurtured and produced