The city is named after the goddess of war and wisdom Athena, who was the patron saint of the ancient polis. Athens has a rich history; in the classical period (5th century BC), the city-state reached the pinnacle of its development, defining many trends in the development of later European culture. So, the names of the philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, who laid the foundations of European philosophy, the tragedians of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, who stood at the origins of the drama, are associated with the city; the political system of ancient Athens was democracy.
