10 Facts About Old Academy

The Old 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 Old Academy was destroyed by the Roman dictator Sulla in 86 BC.

Site of the Old Academy was sacred to Athena; it had sheltered her religious cult since the Bronze Age.

Visitors today can visit the archaeological site of the Old Academy located on either side of the Cratylus street in the area of Colonos and Plato's Old Academy.

Plato's Old Academy is often said to have been a school for would-be politicians in the ancient world, and to have had many illustrious alumni.

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At the head of the Old he put Plato, at the head of the Middle Academy, Arcesilaus, and of the New, Lacydes.

Old Academy made Plato founder of the first Academy; Arcesilaus of the second; Carneades of the third; Philo and Charmadas of the fourth; and Antiochus of the fifth.

New or Third Old Academy begins with Carneades, in 155 BC, the fourth Scholarch in succession from Arcesilaus.

Destruction of the Old Academy seems to have been so severe as to make the reconstruction and re-opening of the Old Academy impossible.

The heads of the Neoplatonic Old Academy were Plutarch of Athens, Syrianus, Proclus, Marinus, Isidore, and finally Damascius.