Academy

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Academy is the ancient Athenian site that housed Plato’s philosophical school and became synonymous with institutions of higher learning.

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Academy canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient philosophical school
archaeological site
educational institution
conceptuallyGaveRiseTo term "academy" for institutions of higher learning
country Greece
dedicatedTo Athena
dissolved 86 BC
dissolvedBy Sulla
dissolvedDuring Roman sack of Athens
era Classical Greece
Hellenistic period
foundedBy Plato
hasPart groves
gymnasium
sanctuaries
hasType center of learning
philosophical school
heritageStatus archaeological park
inception c. 387 BC
influenced Neoplatonism
Renaissance Platonism
medieval universities
modern concept of the academy
languageOfWorkOrName Ancient Greek
locatedIn Ancient Greece
linked to: Greek Antiquity

Athens
Attica
mainInterest dialectic
mathematics
philosophy
modernNameInGreek Akadimia
namedAfter Akademos
Hecademus
notableStudent Aristotle
Demosthenes
linked to: Isocrates

Eudoxus of Cnidus
Philip II of Macedon
Theophrastus
partOf Athenian gymnasia
significantPerson Antiochus of Ascalon
Arcesilaus
Carneades
Philo of Larissa
Plato
Speusippus
Xenocrates
use philosophical instruction
physical training
religious rites

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