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Platonic Academy
The Academy (Ancient Greek: Ἀκαδημία) was founded by Plato (428/427 BCE – 348/347 BCE) in ca. 387 BCE in AthensAristotle  (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.

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