Platos Academy
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THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF PLATOS ACADEMY
"The area today configured as an archaeological park is indentified with what antiquity was called the Akademe(i)a. The ancient Greeks linked this name with the mythical hero Akedemos or Hekademos. It was defined by the low hill of Hippios Colonus near todays Lenormant street and the banks of the Kifissos river, whose bed lay further east than nowdays, nearer Athens. A road (1.5 km. in length) led from the Dipylon Gate in the Kerameikos and crossed the citys public cemetery, the Demosion Sema. Today this route is indentified with Plataion - Platonos and Salaminos streets, in a densely populated part of modern Athens".. (to be continued..)
Photos album here. Map here.
"The area today configured as an archaeological park is indentified with what antiquity was called the Akademe(i)a. The ancient Greeks linked this name with the mythical hero Akedemos or Hekademos. It was defined by the low hill of Hippios Colonus near todays Lenormant street and the banks of the Kifissos river, whose bed lay further east than nowdays, nearer Athens. A road (1.5 km. in length) led from the Dipylon Gate in the Kerameikos and crossed the citys public cemetery, the Demosion Sema. Today this route is indentified with Plataion - Platonos and Salaminos streets, in a densely populated part of modern Athens".. (to be continued..)
Photos album here. Map here.
