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An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato 's school of philosophy , founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia , a sanctuary of Athena , the goddess of wisdom and skill , north of Athens , Greece.
The Academy (Ancient Greek: Ἀκαδημία, romanized: Akadēmía), variously known as Plato's Academy, or the Platonic Academy, was founded in Athens by Plato circa 387 BC. The academy is regarded as the first institution of higher education in the west, where subjects as diverse as biology , geography , astronomy , mathematics , history ...
Academus (/ ˌ æ k ə ˈ d iː m ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀκάδημος, romanized: Akádemos), also Hecademus (Ancient Greek: Ἑκάδημος, romanized: Hekádemos), was an Attic hero in Greek mythology. The site of Academus, either a grove or a park, which became known as Akademeia, lies on the Cephissus, six stadia from Athens.
The School of Athens, an ancient Greek academy, fresco by Raphael (1509–1510) College – This term, from (Latin collegium) is most often used today to denote an educational institution. More broadly, it can be the name of any group of colleagues (see, for example electoral college, College of Arms, College of Cardinals).
Following the death of the Pyrrhonist Timon of Phlius, the Platonic Academy became the primary advocate of skepticism until the mid-first century BCE. [4] While early Academic skepticism was influenced in part by Pyrrho, [ 5 ] it grew more and more dogmatic until Aenesidemus , in the first century BCE, broke with the Academic skeptics and ...
Education for Greek people was vastly "democratized" in the 5th century B.C., influenced by the Sophists, Plato, and Isocrates. Later, in the Hellenistic period of Ancient Greece, education in a gymn school was considered essential for participation in Greek culture. The value of physical education to the ancient Greeks and Romans has been ...
The study took a great leap forward when Plato and the academy in general undertook to define what is meant by the good, or ideal, polis. Plato analyzes the polis in the Republic, the Greek title of which, Πολιτεία , itself derives from the word polis. The best form of government of the polis for Plato is the one that leads to the ...
New Academy (Moscopole), an educational institution operating from 1743 to 1769 in Moscopole; Academy of Athens (modern), the national academy of Greece; Greek Army Academy, an educational institution in Greece founded in 1828 in Nafplio by Ioannis Kapodistrias; Greek Film Academy, a professional honorary organization in Greece for filmmakers