Justinian closes the Academy of Athens
529 · Event
The same year the law code appears, the emperor's edicts against pagan teaching end philosophy at Athens — closing, by tradition, the school Plato had founded nine centuries earlier. Some of its last philosophers try exile in Persia; antiquity's longest conversation goes quiet, in the same reign that preserves Roman law forever.
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