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Headword:
Akadêmia
Adler number: alpha,774
Translated headword: Academy
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A place of exercise in
Athens, a wooded suburb in which
Plato used to spend his time; named after Hekademos, a hero. It was formerly called the Hecademy, [spelled] with epsilon.[1]
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "but going down into the Academy, you will run crowned with pale reeds under the sacred olives with a sound-minded age-mate, smelling of bindweed and quietude and the bright falling leaves, delighting in the season of spring, when the plane tree whispers to the elm."[2]
Greek Original:Akadêmia: gumnasion en Athênais, proasteion alsôdes en hôi dietribe Platôn, apo Hekadêmou tinos hêrôos onomasthen. proteron de dia tou e Hekadêmia ekaleito. Aristophanês Nephelais: all' eis Hekadêmian katiôn, hupo tais moriais apothrexeis stephanôsamenos kalamôi leukôi meta sôphronos hêlikiôtou, milakos ozôn kai apragmosunês kai leukês phullobolousês, êros en hôrai chairôn, hopot' an platanos pteleai psithurizêi.
Notes:
References:
Baltes, Matthias. "Plato's School, the Academy," Hermathena 155 (1993) 3-26
Dancy, R.M. Two Studies in the Early Academy (SUNY Press, New York: 1991)
Dorandi, T. "Four Testimonia on the Academy," Classical Quarterly 38 (1988) 576-578
Keywords: aetiology; athletics; biography; botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; imagery; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 13 January 2000@00:44:18.
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