387 BC Institution

Plato’s Academy

Name: Plato’s Academy
Start: -387

The West’s first philosophical institution; Aristotle studies there for twenty years before founding the Lyceum.

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Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Ancient Greece 800 BC – 146 BC City-states, philosophy, and the first known democracy.
Rome 509 BC – 476 From the Republic to the fall of the Western Empire.

What was written of it

Nations must serve as guides to one another, and all would be wrong to deprive themselves of the light they can lend each other.

Germaine de Staël 1813

On Germany

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