Athens is known as the greatest city in Greece for arts and sciences.
Great minds were born and lived in Athens. They were:
1) Herodotus - history
2) Socrates - philosophy
3) Hippocrates - medicine
4) Phidias - arts, scultor
5) Democritus - science (atomic universe)
6) Aeschylus, Euripedes, Aristophanes, and Sophocles - playwrite
7) Pindar - arts, odes
8) Plato - philosopher and mathematician
9) Aristotle - philosopher and scientist
These are the names whose lives and works are still being discussed in school and whose findings are used as basis of other modern day scientists.