Academy - The original Academy

An academy is an institution for the study of (usually) higher learning. The name Academy rose from Plato's Athenian school of philosophy, founded in approximately 385 BC. The term is also used for various other institutions in modern times (see below). Academy - The original Academy. Before the Akademeia was a school, however, even before Cimon enclosed its precincts with a wall (Plutarch Life of Cimon xiii:7), it contained a sacred grove of olive trees outside the city w ...

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• Academy - The original Academy
• Academy - The revived neoplatonic Academy of Late Antiquity
• Academy - Modern use of the term academy
• Academy - Honorary Academy
• Academy - Research Academy
• Academy - English school type
• Academy - Reference

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Before the Akademeia was a school, however, even before Cimon enclosed its precincts with a wall (Plutarch Life of Cimon xiii:7), it contained a sacred grove of olive trees outside the city walls of ancient Athens (Thucydides ii:34). The archaic name for the site was Hekademeia, which by classical times evolved into Akademeia and was explained, at least as early as the beginning of the 6th century BC, by linking it to an ...

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Academy, Academy - The original Academy, Academy - The revived neoplatonic Academy of Late Antiquity, Academy - Modern use of the term academy, Academy - Honorary Academy, Academy - Research Academy, Academy - English school type, Academy - Reference

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Because of the tradition of intellectual brilliance associated with this institution, many groups have chosen to use the word "Academy" in their name. During the Florentine Renaissance, Cosimo de' Medici took a personal interest in the new Platonic Academy that he determined to re-establish in 1439, centered on the marvellous promise shown by Marsilio Ficino, scarcely more than a lad. Cosimo had been inspired by the arrival at the otherwise ineffective Council of Florence of Gemistos Plethon, who seemed like a Plato reborn to the Flor ...

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Academy, Academy - The original Academy, Academy - The revived neoplatonic Academy of Late Antiquity, Academy - Modern use of the term academy, Academy - Honorary Academy, Academy - Research Academy, Academy - English school type, Academy - Reference

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After a lapse during the early Roman occupation, the Academy was refounded (Cameron 1965) as a new institution of some outstanding Platonists of late antiquity who called themselves "successors" (diadochoi, but of Plato) and presented themselves as an uninterrupted tradition reaching back to Plato. There cannot really have been any geographical, institutional, economic or personal continuity with the original Academy in the new organizational entity (Bechtle). The last "Greek" philosophers of the revived Academy in the 6th cent ...

See also:

Academy, Academy - The original Academy, Academy - The revived neoplatonic Academy of Late Antiquity, Academy - Modern use of the term academy, Academy - Honorary Academy, Academy - Research Academy, Academy - English school type, Academy - Reference

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