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Fifth century BC Athens was one of the first societies to have a golden age. Philosophy or literally the search for truth was born with philosophers like Protagoras, Socrates and Plato. Hippocrates, the father of medicine the historian Herodotus and others began the systematic study of the world. With the playwrights Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides came the birth of serious drama in western culture, attracting thousands to see their masterful tragedies and comedies, Sculpture and painting both flourished and a great programine of public building was undertaken, culminating in the magnificent temple of the Parthenon.