During Greece's Golden Age, advances were made in drama, mathematics, science, sculpture, history, and philosophy. In drama, Aeschylus wrote the first great tragedies including Oresteia, while Sophocles and Euripides also wrote tragedies. Aristophanes wrote the first great comedies. In history, Herodotus and Thucydides developed new standards for gathering evidence and rejecting mythology. In philosophy, Socrates used questioning to encourage examination of beliefs, while his students Plato and Aristotle founded schools and wrote works on political systems and logic. Contemporaries also made breakthroughs in medicine with Hippocrates, geometry with Euclid, mechanics with Archimedes,