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  1. Originally, the school of philosophy founded
  2. by Plato in the gardens of Academe, NW of
  3. Athens; it was closed by the Byzantine
  4. Emperor Justinian, with the other pagan
  5. schools, in AD 529. The first academy, in the
  6. present-day sense of a recognized society
  7. established for the promotion of one or more
  8. of the arts and sciences, was the Museum of
  9. Alexandria, founded by Ptolemy Soter in the
  10. 3rd century BC.
  11.  
  12. Subject by: Russell Webb
  13.