Platonic Academy

The Academy was founded by Plato in ca. 387 BC in Athens. Aristotle studied there for twenty years 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 BC.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: ancient philosophical, research and educative center, founded by Plato in Athens
  • Also known as: “Academy of Plato”, “Plato’s Academy”, and “Plato’s Academy Archaeological Site”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Athens railway station and Kerameikos Archaeological Museum.

Railway station
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is the main railway station of and the second-largest station in . Located in the central quarter of Kolonos, the railway station resulted from the merger of two separate railway terminals in 2005—Larissa station of the… is situated 1 km east of Platonic Academy.

Museum
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The is located in , , and was built in 1937. It houses many important early Geometric art pieces that date as far back as 860 BC. is situated 1½ km southeast of Platonic Academy.

Mosque
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The Votanikos Mosque, more commonly known as the or the Athens Mosque, is a in the neighbourhood of , . It is the first official mosque in the Greek capital since the Greek War of Independence. is situated 1 km southwest of Platonic Academy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Akadimia Platonos and Kolonos.

Quarter
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literally meaning Plato's Academy, is a neighbourhood located 3 km west-northwest of the downtown part of the Greek capital of .

Quarter
Colonus or was a deme of the phyle Aegeis, of ancient Attica, celebrated as the deme of Sophocles, and the scene of one of the poet's tragedies, was situated ten stadia from the gate of the city, called Dipylum, near Plato's Academy and the river .

Neighborhood
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meaning 'Prophet Daniel' is a neighborhood of , . It takes its name from the main church on Athinon Avenue.

Platonic Academy

Latitude
37.99137° or 37° 59′ 29″ north
Longitude
23.70838° or 23° 42′ 30″ east
Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)
Open location code
8G95XPR5+G9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3343545896
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
8378618
Wiki­data ID
Q193093
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Platonic Academy” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Akademia e Platonit”
  • Amharic: “የፕላቶ አካዳሚ”
  • Arabic: “أكاديمية أفلاطونية”
  • Armenian: “Պլատոնական ակադեմիա”
  • Armenian: “Պլատոնյան ակադեմիա”
  • Asturian: “Academia d’Atenes”
  • Azerbaijani: “Platon Akademiyası”
  • Basque: “Atenasko akademia”
  • Basque: “Atenasko Akademia”
  • Basque: “Atenasko eskola”
  • Belarusian: “Акадэмія Платона”
  • Belarusian: “Акадэмія Плятона”
  • Belarusian: “Акадэмія”
  • Belarusian: “Платонаўская Акадэмія”
  • Belarusian: “Плятонава Акадэмія”
  • Belarusian: “Плятонаўская акадэмія”
  • Bengali: “একাডেমী”
  • Bengali: “প্লেটোর অ্যাকাডেমি”
  • Breton: “Akademiezh”
  • Bulgarian: “Атински философски школи”
  • Bulgarian: “Платонова академия”
  • Catalan: “Acadèmia de Plató”
  • Catalan: “Acadèmia platònica”
  • Cebuano: “Akadimia Platonos”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەکادیمیای ئەفلاتوونی”
  • Chinese: “柏拉图学院”
  • Chinese: “柏拉圖學院”
  • Chinese: “雅典学院”
  • Croatian: “Akademija”
  • Czech: “Platónská akademie”
  • Czech: “Platónská Akademie”
  • Danish: “Platons akademi”
  • Dutch: “Academia”
  • Dutch: “Academie van Athene”
  • Dutch: “Academie”
  • Dutch: “Akademeia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اكاديميه افلاطونيه”
  • Esperanto: “Akademio de Platono”
  • Estonian: “Platoni Akadeemia”
  • Finnish: “Akademeia”
  • Finnish: “Akateeminen skepsismi”
  • Finnish: “Akateeminen skeptisismi”
  • Finnish: “Akateeminen skeptismi”
  • Finnish: “Akatemialainen skepsismi”
  • Finnish: “Akatemialaiset”
  • Finnish: “Hekademeia”
  • Finnish: “Keskimmäinen Akatemia”
  • Finnish: “Platonin Akatemia”
  • Finnish: “Uusi Akatemia”
  • Finnish: “Vanha Akatemia”
  • French: “Academie de Platon”
  • French: “Académie de Platon”
  • French: “Site archéologique de l’Académie de Platon”
  • Galician: “Academia de Atenas”
  • Georgian: “პლატონის აკადემია”
  • German: “Akademeia”
  • German: “Akademie”
  • German: “Archäologische Stätte der Akademie von Plato”
  • German: “Platonische Akademie”
  • Greek: “Ακαδημία Πλάτωνος”
  • Greek: “Ακαδημία του Πλάτωνα”
  • Greek: “Αρχαιολογικός Χώρος Ακαδημίας Πλάτωνος”
  • Greek: “Πλατωνική Ακαδημία”
  • Hebrew: “האקדמיה האפלטונית”
  • Hungarian: “Akadémia”
  • Icelandic: “Akademía”
  • Icelandic: “Akademían”
  • Indonesian: “Akademi Neoplato”
  • Indonesian: “Akademi Plato”
  • Indonesian: “Akademi Platonik”
  • Indonesian: “Akademia”
  • Interlingua: “Academia de Platon”
  • Irish: “an tAcadamh Platónach”
  • Italian: “Accademia di Atene”
  • Italian: “Accademia di Platone”
  • Italian: “Accademia platonica”
  • Japanese: “アカデミア”
  • Japanese: “アカデミア派”
  • Japanese: “アカデメイア”
  • Japanese: “アカデメイア派”
  • Kazakh: “Платон Академиясы”
  • Korean: “아카데메이아”
  • Kurdish: “Akademiya Eflatûnî”
  • Kurdish: “Akademiya Platonî”
  • Latin: “Academia Platonica”
  • Latin: “Academia Platonis”
  • Latvian: “Platona akadēmija”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Academia de Atina”
  • Lithuanian: “Platono akademija”
  • Macedonian: “Платонова академија”
  • Malay: “Akademia”
  • Malayalam: “പ്ലേറ്റോയുടെ അക്കാദമി”
  • Maltese: “akkademja t’Ateni”
  • Mongolian: “Платоны академи”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Platons Akademi”
  • Norwegian: “Platons akademi”
  • Ossetian: “Платоны Академи”
  • Papiamento: “Akademia di Atenas”
  • Persian: “آکادمی افلاطون”
  • Polish: “Akademia Ateńska”
  • Polish: “Akademia Platońska”
  • Polish: “Akademia”
  • Portuguese: “Academia Antiga”
  • Portuguese: “Academia de atenas”
  • Portuguese: “Academia de Platão”
  • Portuguese: “Academia em atenas”
  • Portuguese: “Academia Platônica”
  • Pushto: “اپلاتوني ښوونځی”
  • Romanian: “Academia platonică”
  • Russian: “Академия Афинская”
  • Russian: “Академия Платона”
  • Russian: “Академия платоновская”
  • Russian: “Археологический памятник Академии Платона”
  • Russian: “Платоновская Академия”
  • Scots: “Platonic Academy”
  • Serbian: “Платонова Академија”
  • Sindhi: “افلاطوني اڪيڊمي”
  • Sindhi: “اڪيڊمي”
  • Slovak: “Akadémia platónska”
  • Slovak: “Platónova akadémia”
  • Slovak: “Platónska akadémia”
  • Slovak: “Stará akadémia”
  • Slovak: “Stredná akadémia”
  • Slovenian: “Akademija v Atenah”
  • Slovenian: “Akademija”
  • Slovenian: “Atenska akademija”
  • Slovenian: “Platonova Akademija”
  • Spanish: “Academia de Atenas”
  • Spanish: “Academia de Platon”
  • Spanish: “Academia de Platón”
  • Spanish: “Academia Platonica”
  • Spanish: “Academia Platónica”
  • Spanish: “Sitio arqueológico de la Academia de Platón”
  • Swedish: “Akademeia”
  • Swedish: “Akademien”
  • Swedish: “Platons akademi”
  • Tajik: “Академияи Афлотун”
  • Tamil: “பிளாட்டோனியக் கல்விக்கழகம்”
  • Tatar: “Әфләтүн академиясе”
  • Tatar: “Платон академиясе”
  • Turkish: “Platon Akademisi”
  • Ukrainian: “Академія Платона”
  • Ukrainian: “Академія Платонівська”
  • Ukrainian: “Платонівська академія”
  • Urdu: “Academy”
  • Urdu: “اکادمی”
  • Vietnamese: “Học viện Platon”
  • Welsh: “Academi Platon”
  • Welsh: “Academi”
  • Western Armenian: “Պղատոնական Ակադեմիա”
  • Western Panjabi: “اکیڈیمی”
  • Wu Chinese: “柏拉图学院”

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