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A suburb of [[Athens]], Academy was named after the hero Academos or Ecademos. People lived in the Academy from very ancient times until the A.D. 500s. In 387 B.C., [[Plato]] founded his philosophical school that we call Plato's Academy. The Neoplatonists developed this school and it continued in operation until A.D. 526, when the emperor [[Justinian]] shut it down.
A suburb of [[Athens]], '''Plato's Academy''' was named after the hero Academos or Ecademos. People lived in the Academy from very ancient times until the A.D. 500s. In 387 B.C., [[Plato]] founded his philosophical school that we call Plato's Academy. The Neoplatonists developed this school and it continued in operation until A.D. 526, when the emperor [[Justinian]] shut it down.
The mathematicians associated with Plato's Academy were Theaetetus, Eudoxus, and Archytas, who produced some of the work later found in [[Euclid|Euclid's]] ''Elements''.
The mathematicians associated with Plato's Academy were Theaetetus, Eudoxus, and Archytas, who produced some of the work later found in [[Euclid|Euclid's]] ''Elements''.
[[Category:Philosophy]]
[[Category:Philosophy]]