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Akademos

Akademos is a name that appears in Greek mythology and ancient geography. In myth, Akademos is presented as a legendary hero associated with the Attic countryside and the grove that would later bear his name. The exact traditions about his parentage and deeds vary between sources, but the figure serves primarily as the eponym for the sacred space east of the city of Athens.

The Akademos hill and its grove were located in the Attica region, near the ancient city of

In modern usage, the term academy, along with academe and academic, derives from Akademos through the Latin

Athens.
The
exact
position
is
described
by
ancient
authors
as
being
in
the
vicinity
of
Athens;
the
Academy
of
Plato
was
founded
there
around
387
BCE.
The
site
became
a
symbol
of
rational
discourse
and
formal
education
in
antiquity
and
later
gave
rise
to
the
modern
term
academy.
and
medieval
Latin
forms,
and
is
used
to
refer
to
scholarly
institutions,
societies,
and
the
body
of
scholars
as
a
whole.
The
name
persists
in
place-names,
institutions,
and
literary
references,
serving
as
a
reminder
of
Plato's
school
and
the
ancient
Attic
tradition
of
philosophical
inquiry.