In The School of Athens, Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy, signified by the portrayal of what two figures in the center of the composition?

a) Plato and Aristotle
b) Christ and Michelangelo
c) Socrates and Euripides
d) Descartes and Hippocrates


Answer: a

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