The Complete Plato
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ISBN10: 1545042950
ISBN13: 9781545042953
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 11 2017
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781545042953
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 11 2017
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Plato may have traveled in Italy, Sicily, Egypt and Cyrene. Said to have returned to Athens at the age of forty, Plato founded one of the earliest known organized schools in Western Civilization on a plot of land in the Grove of Hecademus or Academus. The Academy was a large enclosure of ground about six stadia outside of Athens proper. One story is that the name of the Academy comes from the ancient hero, Academus; still another story is that the name came from a supposed former owner of the plot of land, an Athenian citizen whose name was (also) Academus; while yet another account is that it was named after a member of the army of Castor and Pollux, an Arcadian named Echedemus. The Academy operated until it was destroyed by Lucius Cornelius Sulla in 84 BC. Neoplatonists revived the Academy in the early 5th century, and it operated until 529 AD, when it was closed by Justinian I of Byzantium, who saw it as a threat to the propagation of Christianity. Many intellectuals were schooled in the Academy, the most prominent one being Aristotle.
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