Academy of Athens

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Platonic academy educational institution philosophical school

The Academy of Athens was an influential ancient Greek philosophical school in Athens that became the center of Plato’s teachings and a cornerstone of Western intellectual tradition.

Aliases (6)

Academy of Athens (ancient) ×64
Plato's Academy ×2
Academy (Plato’s Academy) ×1
Academy of Athens (modern Greek academy) ×1
Academy of Plato ×1
Platonic Academy ×1

Statements (64)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Platonic academy → educational institution → philosophical school →
continuationAs	Platonic tradition in late antique schools →
country	Ancient Greece →
dedicatedTo	Athena →
dissolved	529 AD →
dissolvedBy	Justinian I →
distinctFrom	Academy of Athens (modern Greek academy) →
era	Classical antiquity → Hellenistic period → Late antiquity →
fieldOfWork	astronomy → dialectic → epistemology → ethics → mathematics → metaphysics → natural philosophy → philosophy → political philosophy →
foundedBy	Plato →
hasPart	grove of Akademos → gymnasium → walkways for dialectical discussion →
headOfSchool	Antiochus of Ascalon → Arcesilaus → Carneades → Crates of Athens → Philo of Larissa → Plato → Polemon of Athens → Speusippus → Xenocrates →
inception	c. 387 BC →
influenced	Christian philosophy → Islamic philosophy → Renaissance humanism → Western philosophy →
influencedBy	Eleatic school → Heraclitean philosophy → Pythagoreanism → Socratic philosophy →
languageOfWorkOrName	Ancient Greek →
locatedIn	Athens → Attica → Classical Greece →
mottoOrPrinciple	Let no one ignorant of geometry enter (traditional attribution) →
namedAfter	Akademos → Hekademos →
notableStudent	Aristotle → Democritus Jr. (misattributed in tradition) → Eudoxus of Cnidus → Heraclides Ponticus → Philip of Opus → Speusippus → Theaetetus → Xenocrates →
partOf	Classical Athenian philosophy → Western philosophical tradition →
reasonForDissolution	imperial edict against pagan philosophical schools →
tradition	Middle Platonism → Neoplatonism → Platonism →

Referenced by (11)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Aristotle ("Plato's Academy") → Panaetius of Rhodes ("Academy (Plato’s Academy)") →	educatedAt
Plato →	associatedWith
Academy of Athens (ancient) ("Academy of Athens (modern Greek academy)") →	distinctFrom
Plato →	founded
Classical Greek philosophy ("Academy of Plato") →	hasCenter
Panepistimiou Street →	hasLandmark
School of Socrates ("Platonic Academy") →	influenced
Michail Stasinopoulos →	memberOf
Modern Greek →	regulator
Peripatetic school ("Plato's Academy") →	successorTo