The ancient Platonic Academy was founded by Plato in Athens in the year, 387 BC. This was the same school in which, the other famous ancient Greek philosopher and Plato’s disciple, Aristotle studied in. Aristotle spent 20 years in the Academy, learning philosophy, before founding his own school of philosophy, the Lyceum. The Platonic Academy kept functioning all through the Hellenistic period as a dubious school until it was closed down in the year, 83 BC.