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Platonic Academy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Platonic Academy

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The Academy (Ancient Greek: ) was founded by Plato (428/427 BC 348/347 BC) in ca. 387 BC in
Athens. Aristotle (384 BC 322 BC) studied there for twenty years (367 BC 347 BC) before founding his own
school, the Lyceum. The Academy persisted throughout the Hellenistic period as a skeptical school, until coming to
an end after the death of Philo of Larissa in 83 BC. Although philosophers continued to teach Plato's philosophy in
Athens during the Roman era, it was not until AD 410 that a revived Academy was re-established as a center for
Neoplatonism, persisting until 529 AD when it was finally closed down by Justinian I.

Contents
1 Site
2 Plato's Academy
3 Later history of the Academy
3.1 Old Academy
3.2 Middle Academy
3.3 New Academy
4 Destruction of the Academy
5 Neoplatonic Academy
6 See also
7 Notes
8 References
9 External links

Site
Before the Akademia was a school, and even before Cimon enclosed its
precincts with a wall,[1] it contained a sacred grove of olive trees
dedicated to Athena, the goddess of wisdom, outside the city walls of
ancient Athens.[2] The archaic name for the site was Hekademia
(), which by classical times evolved into Akademia and was
explained, at least as early as the beginning of the 6th century BC, by
linking it to an Athenian hero, a legendary "Akademos".

Ancient road to the Academy.

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The site of the Academy was sacred to Athena and other immortals; it
had sheltered her religious cult since the Bronze Age, a cult that was
perhaps also associated with the hero-gods the Dioscuri (Castor and
Polydeuces), for the hero Akademos associated with the site was
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