The
Academy (
Ancient Greek: Ἀκαδημία) was founded by
Plato (428/427 BCE – 348/347 BCE) in ca. 387 BCE in
Athens.
Aristotle (384 BCE – 322 BCE) studied there for twenty years (367 BCE – 347 BCE) before founding his own school, the
Lyceum. The Academy persisted throughout the
Hellenistic period as a
skeptical school, until coming to an end after the death of
Philo of Larissa in 83 BCE. Although philosophers continued to teach Plato's philosophy in Athens during the
Roman era, it was not until AD 410 that a revived Academy was established as a center for
Neoplatonism, persisting until 529 CE when it was finally closed by
Justinian I.