Establishes the Academy
· Platonic Academy, Athens, Greece
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication · file After returning from Syracuse, Plato founded the Academy near the sacred grove of Hecademus. It became his principal teaching and writing base and one of antiquity’s most influential philosophical communities. Proposed foundation dates range from about 387 to 383 BC; the coordinate marks the archaeological Academy site.
