One day a team of students visited the archaeological site of Plato’s Academy. They had to shoot snaps and write their impressions so as to complete a project about the great philosopher.
Then, they noticed a statue just beside an olive tree. It seemed old but it was adequately conserved. They stood in front of it and as they were looking at it they started wondering about its history.
Look at this statue!
The statue listened to them and as it was seeking some company, it started talking to them:
Not a thing!
Can you talk?
I am just a statue of the hero Akademos, the first resident of this region. I have been here for ages with my friend, the olive tree. Come and sit and we will tell you our story, as well as this of the park.
Academy or Akademia was a suburb of the ancient town of Athens at the outer part of Kerameikos,near the banks of the Kifissos river, and southly of Ippios Kolonos Hill.
It was a treeless and rather barren landscape with only twelve sacred olive trees coming from the holy olive tree of the Acropolis. Later on, the residents built a sanctuary and put up a statue in my honor.
Oh, my lovely statue what a nice place this is! I am thinking to bring here my friend, Plato. He has been telling for a long time that ...
In 387, as we were resting in peace with the olive tree ,a lanky man came and started telling me:
This place is wonderful for this.
I want to set up a School, a place to house Knowledge so that the sages with their students won’t wander in streets.
No one ignorant of geometry may enter
So, after some time the School was ready. It was called ‘Akademia’. Since then thousands young men from all over the world came here to study!
It was the greatest School of the ancient world! Aristotle the great was apprediced to Plato, although they often disagreed. Students studied mainly maths and that’s why there was an inscription at the entrance of the School ‘No one ignorant of geometry may enter’.
NO!
the voice of the elderly olive tree was heard from beside.
You may rest now my dear Akademos and I will continue,
The centuries went on and everything was fine until the Mithridatic war started and in 86 BC the Romans of general Sulla destroyed the Academy and as a result studies were interrupted.
And what happened with the School?
The School was recreated as a Neoplatonic School, about 750 years after Plato by a so called Plutarch and it was at the foot of the Acropolis.
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One day a team of students visited the archaeological site of Plato’s Academy. They had to shoot snaps and write their impressions so as to complete a project about the great philosopher.
Then, they noticed a statue just beside an olive tree. It seemed old but it was adequately conserved. They stood in front of it and as they were looking at it they started wondering about its history.
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