ACADEMY MAPS

The Academy (Ancient Greek: Ἀκαδημία) 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 throughout the Roman era, it was not until 410 AD that a revived Academy was established as a center for Neoplatonism, persisting until 529 AD when it was finally closed by Justinian I... Most academies are secondary schools. However, some primary schools, as well as some of the remaining first, middle and high schools, are also academies... Plato's immediate successors as "scholarch" of Akademia were Speusippus (347-339 BC), Xenocrates (339-314 BC), Polemon (314-269 BC), Crates (ca. 269-266 BC), and Arcesilaus (ca. 266-240 BC). Later..