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Platonic Academy

Plato's Academy was the precinct and grove outside classical Athens where Plato taught and philosophers gathered from the mid 4th century BC. The site combined a sacred olive grove with altars, a gymnasium and informal teaching spaces on private property and remained a centre for Platonic teaching (and later Neoplatonism) until antiquity.

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First raised

386 BC

Its prime

387 BC

Today

Partial ruin

As it stood in 387 BC

What Platonic Academy looked like in its prime.

A shady sacred precinct enclosed near the city edge, dominated by a grove of olive trees, low stone altars and scattered funerary stelae along the approach road. Paths cross worn paving and simple stone foundations; small votive shrines and a colonnaded gymnasium edge the grove. Materials are local limestone and marble for bases and altars, mudbrick or timber roofs over modest buildings, and rich olive-green foliage shading low human activity in a compact, low-rise campus.

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7 places to explore in 387 BC.

The record describes 7 distinct spots at Platonic Academy, including 1 interior: gymnasium and colonnaded exercise area. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.

Approach road lined with gravestonesCentral sacred olive groveAltar of PrometheusAltar and shrine to AthenaGymnasium and colonnaded exercise areaPlato's property / lecture spotClearing used for funeral games

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