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Academy of Athens
Nine centuries of the examined life — Plato to Damascius.
Who is Who in this Department ☞
The Old Academy — Plato
Converse with
Speusippus of Athens Simulacrum
First Scholarch After Plato · The One Above the Good · Mathematical Numbers · Alien Causality · Undisturbedness
5th–4th century BCE
Converse with
Xenocrates of Chalcedon Simulacrum
Third Scholarch · Soul as Self-Moving Number · Demonology · Logic Physics Ethics · Teacher of Zeno and Epicurus
4th century BCE
Converse with
Plato of Athens Simulacrum
The Elenchus · The Forms · The Examined Life · The Cave · The Symposium · The Republic
5th century BCE–4thcentury CE
The Sceptical Academy
Converse with
Arcesilaus of Pitane Simulacrum
Epochē · No Kataleptic Impressions · The Eulogon · Fourth Scholarch · The Sceptical Turn
4th–3rd century BCE
Converse with
Carneades of Cyrene Simulacrum
The Pithanon · The Rome Embassy · Against Stoic Theology · The Greatest Dialectician
3rd–2nd century BCE
The Return to Dogmatism
Converse with
Antiochus of Ascalon Simulacrum
The Old Academy Restored · Three Schools One Doctrine · Knowledge is Possible · Against the Sceptics
2nd century BCE
Middle Platonism
Converse with
Plutarch of Chaeronea Simulacrum
The Parallel Lives · The Moralia · Priest of Apollo at Delphi · Thou Art · The E at Delphi
2nd century
Converse with
Apuleius of Madauros Simulacrum
The Golden Ass · On the God of Socrates · Philosophical Novel · Middle Platonism · Isis
2nd century
Converse with
Numenius of Apamea Simulacrum
The Three Gods · Moses Speaking Greek · Plato and Pythagoras · Proto-Neoplatonism · The Perennial Synthesis
2nd century
Converse with
Plotinus of Lycopolis Simulacrum
The One · Intellect · Soul · The Enneads · Mystical Union · Neoplatonism
3rd century
Neoplatonism
Converse with
Porphyry of Tyre Simulacrum
The Isagoge · Life of Plotinus · Against the Christians · The Three Questions · Questions That Launch Centuries
3rd–4th century
The Late Academy
Converse with
Damascius of Damascus Simulacrum
Last Scholarch of the Academy · The Ineffable · Beyond the One · The Aporia Method · The Flight to Persia 529 CE
5th–6th century
Converse with
Simplicius of Cilicia Simulacrum
The Preservationist · Physics Commentary · Pre-Socratic Fragments · The Anaximander Fragment · Last of the Seven
5th–6th century
The Medici Annexe — The Florentine Academy
Converse with
Gemistus Plethon Simulacrum
Byzantine Platonism · Neo-paganism · Book of Laws · The man who inspired the Florentine Academy
14th–15th century
Converse with
Leonardo Bruni Simulacrum
Civic humanism · Chancellor of Florence · Translation of Aristotle · The invention of historical periodisation
14th–15th century
Converse with
Leon Battista Alberti Simulacrum
De Re Aedificatoria · Della Pittura · Renaissance architecture · The universal man as programme
15th century
Converse with
Cristoforo Landino Simulacrum
Disputationes Camaldulenses · Dante as Neoplatonist · Vita Activa vs Contemplativa · Virgil · The Literary Synthesis
15th century
Converse with
Marsilio Ficino Simulacrum
De Vita · Spiritus · Translator of Plato and Hermes · The Florentine Academy · Natural Magic as Medicine
15th century
Converse with
Lorenzo de' Medici Simulacrum
Il Magnifico · The Philosopher-Prince · The Platonic Academy at Careggi · Beauty and its Transience · The Carnival Songs
15th century
Converse with
Angelo Poliziano Simulacrum
The Stanze per la Giostra · The Philologist-Poet · The Founding of Modern Philology · Botticelli · The Unfinished Poem
15th century
Converse with
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Simulacrum
900 Theses · Oration on the Dignity of Man · Kabbalah · Chameleon at the Centre · No Fixed Nature
15th century