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508: 309:: "For this reason he was honored during his life by the Tyndaridae, and often afterwards when the Lacedaemonians invaded Attica and laid waste all the country round about, they spared the Academy, for the sake of Academus." 422:: "But Dicaearchus says that Echedemus and Marathus of Arcadia were in the army of the Tyndaridae at that time, from the first of whom the present Academy was named Echedemia, and from the other, the township of Marathon" 337:
observes that there Plato "a big fish, but a sweet-voiced speaker, musical in prose as the cicada who, perched on the trees of Hecademus, pours forth a strain as delicate as a lily".
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book 4, 244-245, uses the phrase: "See there the Olive Grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic Bird Trills her thick-warbl'd notes the summer long".
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converted this, "waterless and arid spot into a well watered grove, which he provided with clear running-tracks and shady walks". Its
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with an English Translation by Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1.
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king and the father of Castor and step father of Helen) showed Academus much gratitude. As noted by
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sheltered her religious cult, which was perhaps associated with the hero-gods, the
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and within its groves, he gave his lectures. According to
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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Index

Hecademus
/ˌækəˈdməs/
Ancient Greek
romanized
Ancient Greek
romanized
Attic
hero
Greek mythology
grove
Cephissus
stadia
Athens
Academy
Plato
English
academy
Athena
wisdom
Bronze Age
Dioskouroi
Castor
Polydeukes
classical times
Plutarch
Cimon
sacred grove
olive oil
Panathenaic Games
Panathenaic amphorae

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