Part 1Introduction: Why the Academy, Now?In April 2027, we will open a new online school centered on philosophy: ...

Every single “academy” in the world is named after the original Akademia of Athens. Founded by Plato after the execution of his teacher, Socrates, at the start of the 4th century BC, Plato’s Academy ...

What would it have been like to attend the Academy, Plato's ancient school? You didn't have to pay, though you did have to have wealth to afford the leisure. A pupil of Aristotle, Dicearchus, stressed ...

While the National Archaeological Museum in Athens – set in the grafitti-ridden anarchist stronghold of Exarchia – will at ...

The name “Academy” is most commonly associated with the home of Platonic philosophy but the same location, in Athens, also plays a part in the history of Stoic philosophy. Zeno of Citium studied at ...