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Plato's Academy: Philosophy's First Campus and Its Legacy
In this milestone episode of The History of Greece, Lucas and Luna step away from the battlefield to explore the creation of the first institution of higher learning in the Western world: Plato's Academy. Founded in 387 BC in a grove outside Athens named after the hero Academus, this school became the intellectual heartbeat of ancient Greece and the model for every university that followed. Lucas unpacks the practical side—how Plato bought the land, the daily routines of students like Aristotle, and the famous inscription over the door: 'Let no one ignorant of geometry enter.'…
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