Rebuilding Plato’s Academy

Exploring the Historic Ruins in Athens

Feb 10, 2021

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Ruins in Akadimia Platonos Park. Photo by author. Public domain.

Every single “academy” in the world is named after the original Akademia of Athens. Founded by Plato after the execution of his teacher, Socrates, at the start of the 4th century BC, Plato’s Academy was the first major school of philosophy, the first ac…

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