He is credited with establishing the First University in Europe
After Socrates was executed in 399 BC, Plato departed from Athens. He is thought to have traveled much at this time and came back 12 years later, in 387 BC. Plato's school may have been founded at an unknown date, although evidence indicates that it may have been in the middle of the fourth century BC.
Outside the ancient Athens city walls stood a school called the Akademia or the Academy. Students might learn a wide range of disciplines from different professors there. Most academics agree that The Academy was the first recognized university in Europe. The Academy provided a broad range of disciplines taught by professionals in their fields. Numerous intelligent people including Theaetetus, a mathematician, Eudoxus of Cnidus, and Aristotle, a philosopher, were all drawn to the Academy, which was considered to be the top university in Europe.
Numerous intelligent people were drawn to it including Aristotle, Theaetetus, and Eudoxus of Cnidus, who was a mathematician (philosopher). Plato controlled the Academy until he died in 347 BCE because he felt that such organizations would promote social advancement and more reliable governmental systems. After Sulla, the Roman ruler besieged Athens, the Academy was destroyed in 86 BCE. A restored Neoplatonic Academy was founded in 410 AD, over 500 years later, and served as a hub for Neoplatonism and mysticism until Justinian I, the Christian emperor, ordered its closure in 529 because it was a pagan institution.
