Ammonius Saccas was a Greek philosopher that revived Platonism and shaped metaphysical thought and spiritual philosophy in ...

Plato's own pupil, Aristotle, was born in 384 BC and began as an ardent supporter of his teacher. However, gradually he modified his teacher's views and turned away from the world of ideas back to ...

Written by philosopher Philodemus, the History of the Academy describes the school Plato founded in Athens in the fourth ... plays by Sophocles and tracts by Aristotle,” per the Times.

Aristotle spent 20 years at Plato’s Academy but left ... following Macedonia’s conquest of Athens, Aristotle returned and established his school, the Lyceum, in a forested area near the ...