When it comes to ancient Greek philosophy, the story of Plato’s Academy is as romantic as it gets. In a familiar version, the story begins with Plato’s return from his travels around the Mediterranean. Having acquired a piece of land in a public Athenian garden bearing the name of the mythical hero Hecademus or Academus, Plato established a community that attracted leading intellectuals of the day as well as promising youngsters, male and female, of the Greek elite. For the last four decades of his life, he conducted philosophical conversations with them, gave the occasional public lecture, and supervised various research projects in dialectics and in higher geometry. Reviewed by: Máté Veres, Published Online (2022-07-31)Copyright © 2022 by Máté VeresArticle PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/aestimatio/article/view/39103/29789 Corresponding Author: Máté Veres,University of TorontoE-Mail: mate.veres@utoronto.ca

Original publication: Veres, Máté. "Paul Kalligas, Chloe Balla, Effie Baziotopoulou-Valavani, and Vassilis Karasmanis, Plato’s Academy: Its Workings and Its History." Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science 2 (2): 2022. 213-219. DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v2i2.39103. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science. Copyright © the author(s). Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.