Platonic Academy

For about 20 years they were at the same school, the Platonic Academy.

He reestablished the Platonic Academy there and became its leader.

The closure of the Platonic Academy in 529 was a notable turning point.

The Platonic Academy has been cited by historians as the first higher learning institution in the Western world.

Many of the scholars in the Platonic Academy sought to clarify and explain Plato's ideas.

He headed the Platonic Academy and wrote extensively on philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, and grammar.

Athens was the home of Socrates, Plato, and the Platonic Academy.

Justinian the Great closed the Platonic Academy in Athens, thus putting an end to classical learning.

Plato, a Greek philosopher, founds a school (the Platonic Academy) that will influence the next 2000 years.

The term is especially remembered for its use to mean the heads of schools of philosophy, such as the Platonic Academy in ancient Athens.

Platonic Academy (Florence)

He also studied under the head of the Platonic Academy, who was Arcesilaus of Pitane.

Academia (named after Platonic Academy) was a Soviet publishing house prior to the merger with Goslitizdat.

He is believed to have attended the courses of Arcesilaus and his successor Lacydes, in the Platonic Academy.

The word Akademie derives from the Platonic Academy, which was located near the bosk of Akademos.

He founded a "Platonic Academy" where students could study the works of Ancient Greek writers and talk about politics, religion and new ideas.

It was emulated during the Renaissance by the Florentine Platonic Academy, whose members saw themselves as following Plato's tradition.

Landino was a member of the Platonic Academy founded by Marsilio Ficino in Florence.

In the Platonic Academy the scholarchs (school heads) Xenocrates and (probably) Polemon pleaded for vegetarianism.

Both schools were based on the idea of the Platonic Academy and both were "an open house for every new effort in theatre, literature, music and art."

Also Marsilio Ficino at the Platonic Academy near Florence was responsible for translating Greek texts.

At Florence, Pletho met Cosimo de' Medici and influenced the latter's decision to found a new Platonic Academy there.

In Florence, he became a member of the Platonic Academy and was noted as an expert in Greek, Latin and Hebrew.

The Platonic Academy was re-established during this period; its most renowned head was Proclus (died 485), a celebrated commentator on Plato's writings.

One of the last heads of the Platonic Academy in Athens before its abolition by Justinian in 529 CE.