<P> The Academy ( Ancient Greek : Ἀκαδημία ) was founded by Plato ( 428 / 427 BC -- 348 / 347 BC ) in ca . 387 BC in Athens . Aristotle ( 384 -- 322 BC ) studied there for twenty years ( 367 -- 347 BC ) 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 . The Platonic Academy was destroyed most likely by the Roman dictator Sulla in 86 BC . Many centuries later , in 410 AD , a sort of `` revived '' Academy , which had no institutional continuity with Plato 's school , was established as a center for Neoplatonism and mysticism , persisting until 529 AD when it was finally closed by Justinian I. Other schools in Constantinople , Antioch and Alexandria , which were the centres of Justinian 's empire , continued . </P>
<P> The Academy ( Ancient Greek : Ἀκαδημία ) was founded by Plato ( 428 / 427 BC -- 348 / 347 BC ) in ca . 387 BC in Athens . Aristotle ( 384 -- 322 BC ) studied there for twenty years ( 367 -- 347 BC ) 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 . The Platonic Academy was destroyed most likely by the Roman dictator Sulla in 86 BC . Many centuries later , in 410 AD , a sort of `` revived '' Academy , which had no institutional continuity with Plato 's school , was established as a center for Neoplatonism and mysticism , persisting until 529 AD when it was finally closed by Justinian I. Other schools in Constantinople , Antioch and Alexandria , which were the centres of Justinian 's empire , continued . </P>
who was the founder of the academy in athens
who was the founder of the academy in athens
Plato
Plato