What was the name of the famous school founded by Plato in Athens?
Lyceum
Academy
Stoa Poikile
Pnyx
Answer
The Academy was a school outside the city walls of ancient Athens. It was founded by Plato in ca. 387 BC and was destroyed by Lucius Cornelius Sulla in 86 BC. The philosophical school that arose there was called "Platonism".
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