Platonic Academy

ancient philosophical, research and educative center, founded by Plato in Athens

6 dated entries naming Platonic Academy, drawn from 6 separate years between 387 BCE and 529 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Neoplatonic Academy, Plato's Academy, Third Academy in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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4th century BC

  • 387 BCEPlato founds the Platonic Academy in Athens, where he teaches Aristotle until 347 BC.source
  • 367 BCEAristotle arrives in Athens and teaches at Plato's Academy.source
  • 348 BCEAristotle leaves Athens and Plato's Academy, after which he resided in Assus in northwestern Anatolia.source

2nd century BC

  • 136 BCECarneades retires as head of the Platonic Academy and is replaced by Polemarchus of Nicomedia.source
  • 129 BCECarneades, philosopher, and founder of Third Academy (b. c. 214 BC)source

6th century

  • 529The Academy, originally founded at Athens by Plato around 387 BC, closes down by order of Justinian I, on charges of un-Christian activity. Many of the school's professors emigrate to Persia and Syria.source

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