In our days, when we speak of academia or someone refers to one, immediately, we know that he is referring to an educational establishment or to those societies that can be scientific, literary, artistic and whose objective is the promotion, development and learning of any cultural or scientific activity such as literature , dance, language or the promotion of a specific science or a specialty related to these and that have mostly been established thanks to the economic will of a state, government , company or organization .
Among the most common examples of academies we find the medical academies in which old and new professionals meet in the same to exchange and discuss the different medical variants that exist and which are also an obligatory place of consultation for students since they house very important documentary material.
Another well-known and publicized example of an academy, for being responsible for the nomination and delivery of the Oscars, the most famous and expected when it comes to cinema , is the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Hollywood, which up to date It has approximately 6,000 members among producers, screenwriters, directors, actors, among others and deals with everything that concerns the promotion of the film industry in the United States and the Oscars, as we said, of course.
And of course and incredibly despite the intervening years, this clear and almost unique educational and cultural promotion purpose that the academies hold was maintained because it was taken and inspired by nothing more and nothing less than the so-called Academy in Greece. ancient founded by the philosopher Plato .
The Academy was created in approximately 384 BC and was located in the northeast of Greece, more precisely on the outskirts of the current capital of the country, Athens, which at that time was the epicenter of all cultural activity in the country. Among the disciplines that were taught there are: mathematics , dialectics and natural sciences , in addition to this there was an olive grove, a park and a gymnasium. Its function lasted until 529 BC when the Byzantine Emperor Justinian ordered its closure as a pagan stronghold.