The Academy

Plato founded the Academy, a shady gathering spot just outside the walls of Athens, which was named after the local hero whose shrine was nearby. The Academy was not a school or college in the modern sense but rather an informal association of people, who were interested in studying philosophy, mathematics, and theoretical astronomy with Plato as their guide. The Academy became so famous as a gathering place for intellectuals that it continued to operate for nine hundred years after Plato' death, with periods in which it was directed by distinguished philosophers and others during which it lapsed into mediocrity.

Its most famous student was Aristotle

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