Academy- The School Where Plato Taught was Named the Academy

Definition: The Academy was originally a grove near Athens which contained a gymnasium. Plato delivered his lectures there, and the school where he taught came to be called the Academy. Aristotle taught at the Academy as well as Plato, and may have expected to take over its running. However, after Plato's death, the running of the Academy was handed over, not to Aristotle, but to Speusippus.