Academy
place · 7 works · 8 mentions · 10 anchored passages
the Academy · Tusculum · our Academy · that place · the unhealthy district of Attica · walks of the Academy
spoken of as
1 expressionthe Academy4 mentions
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum (Latin) · Hellenica (Greek) · De legendis gentilium libris (Greek) · Tusculan Disputations (Latin)
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in the texts
Hellenica
The place where Iphicrates orders his men to dine before the march.
And when his sacrifices had proved favourable and he had issued orders to his men to dine in the Academy, many, it is said, went thither ahead of Iphicrates himself.
And when all had been gathered together, Pausanias led them to Athens and encamped in the Academy.
Clouds
The grove where, under the old education, disciplined youths ran races beneath the sacred olive trees.
but you shall descend to the Academy and run races beneath the sacred olives along with some modest compeer, crowned with white reeds, redolent of yew, and careless ease, of leaf-shedding white poplar, rejoicing in the season of spring, when the plane-tree whispers to the elm.
De legendis gentilium libris
The site in Attica where Plato taught, noted here for its unhealthy climate.
Wherefore it is said that Plato too, foreseeing the harm from the body, deliberately chose the unhealthy district of Attica, the Academy, that he might cut away the excessive well-being of the body, as one prunes the vine of its growth into superfluous shoots.
On Moral Ends
The famous gymnasium and gardens near Athens associated with Plato and his successors, the setting of the dialogue.
so great is the force of admonition in places, that not without cause the art of memory has been derived from them.
When I had heard Antiochus, Brutus, as I was wont, with Marcus Piso, in that gymnasium which is called the Ptolemaeum, and together with us my brother Quintus and Titus Pomponius and Lucius Cicero — my cousin by kinship, my brother in affection — we settled among ourselves to take our afternoon walk in the Academy, chiefly because that place at that hour was free from all crowd.
Tusculan Disputations
Cicero's private grounds at Tusculum, modeled as an 'Academy,' where the philosophical dialogues take place.
In these books are set forth those things which were disputed by me with my friends at Tusculum.
For when we had gone down into our Academy, the day being now inclined toward the afternoon, I asked one of those present for a theme to discourse upon.
Lysis
A gymnasium and public park outside Athens, the starting point of Socrates' walk in the narrative.
From the Academy, I replied, on my way straight to the Lyceum.
I was making my way from the Academy straight to the Lyceum, by the road outside the town wall,—just under the wall;
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum
The Academy, Plato's philosophical school, invoked as symbol of pagan learning.
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