TY - JOUR

T1 - Philosophical schools and their place in ancient city: Plato's academy and the house of Proclus in Athens

AU - Afonasina, Anna

N1 - Афонасина А.С. Место философской школы в античном городе: Академия Платона и Дом Прокла в Афинах // Праксема. Проблемы визуальной семиотики. - 2019. - № 3 (21). - С. 27-42

PY - 2019/1/1

Y1 - 2019/1/1

N2 - This work is dedicated to the history of Academy in Athens in early and late periods of its existence. I will first consider Academy in the time of Plato and then switch to the Athenian school of Neoplatonism (“the House of Proclus”) in the period of late antiquity. Using both archaeological and written evidences, fortunately sufficient in case of both of these institutions, I intend to draw a picture of their physical location and structure. Such an attitude towards the history, typical to the Annales School, will help us to place intellectual life of the ancients in proper everyday context. There is one more reason why I have chosen these objects. One can say that these two institutions represent two different approaches to the way of life and the methods of education. On the one hand, one can see here the evolution of educational system from free discourses to more familiar for our educational system formal instructions. On the other hand, Plato's Academy reminds us of the contemporary tendency of organizing scientific life far from the densely populated cities in the form of university's campuses, which, to some extent, constitutes a return to the classical paradigm.

AB - This work is dedicated to the history of Academy in Athens in early and late periods of its existence. I will first consider Academy in the time of Plato and then switch to the Athenian school of Neoplatonism (“the House of Proclus”) in the period of late antiquity. Using both archaeological and written evidences, fortunately sufficient in case of both of these institutions, I intend to draw a picture of their physical location and structure. Such an attitude towards the history, typical to the Annales School, will help us to place intellectual life of the ancients in proper everyday context. There is one more reason why I have chosen these objects. One can say that these two institutions represent two different approaches to the way of life and the methods of education. On the one hand, one can see here the evolution of educational system from free discourses to more familiar for our educational system formal instructions. On the other hand, Plato's Academy reminds us of the contemporary tendency of organizing scientific life far from the densely populated cities in the form of university's campuses, which, to some extent, constitutes a return to the classical paradigm.

KW - Athenian school of Neoplatonism

KW - Exedra

KW - Gymnasium

KW - Marin

KW - Plato's Academy

KW - Proclus

KW - Square Peristyle

KW - Topography of Athens

KW - University

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UR - https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=41201738

U2 - 10.23951/2312-7899-2019-3-27-42

DO - 10.23951/2312-7899-2019-3-27-42

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85080083166

VL - 288

SP - 27

EP - 42

JO - Praxema

JF - Praxema

SN - 2312-7899

IS - 3

ER -