Αστράτευτοι ή Άνδρόγυνοι (fr. 36)

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from him they say Echemedeion. But because they did not want his name
to be preserved, they said Akademeia”)
- Et.Gen. a 287 Άκαδήμεον· γυμνάσιον· έστι τόπος προ τού άστεος άπό
Άκαδήμου ώνομασμένος, διό καί [Ακαδημία] τότε εκαλείτο, διττή δέ ή
αρχή τού ονόματος· οι μέν άπό τού α τον Άκάδημον, οί δέ [άπό τού ε] τον
Έκάδημον. ούτως Ώρος (“Akademeon: a wrestling school. This is a spot
outside the city that gets its name from Akademos, as a consequence of
which it was also called [the Akademia]. The name has a double origin;
some authorities have it as Akademos with an alpha, others as Hekademos
[with an epsilon]. Thus Orus”)
- Phot, a 699 = Suda a 775 = Synag. B a 652 Ακαδημία ... έκλήθη δέ άπό
τού καθιερώσαντος αύτό Άκαδήμου (“Akademia ... it got its name from
Akademos, who dedicated it”; from the common source generally referred
to as Σ')
See in general Dorandi 1988.
Interpretation Cf. Ar. Nu. 1005 άλλ’ εις Άκαδήμειαν κατιών ύπό ταΐς μορίαις
άποθρέξει (“you will go down to the Academy and run off under the sa-
cred olive trees”) with Dover 1968 ad loc.·, Plu. Cim. 13.7 τήν δ’ Άκαδήμειαν
έξ άνύδρου καί αύχμηράς κατάρρυτον άποδείξας άλσος, ήσκημένον ύπ’
αυτού δρόμοις καθαροΐς καί συσκίοις περιπάτοις (“and transforming the
Academy from a dry and dusty place into a grove adorned by him with open
dromoi and shaded walkways”; one of Cimon’s benefactions); Heraclid. Crit.
Geographi Graeci Minores I p. 98.13-14 γυμνάσια τρία, Ακαδημία, Άύκειον,
Κυνόσαργες, πάντα κατάδενδρά τε καί τοϊς έδάφεσι ποώδη (“three wrestling
schools, the Academy, the Lyceum and Cynosarges, all of them covered with
trees and overgrown with grass”) (all cited by Kassel-Austin); Sull. 12.3 τήν
... Άκαδήμειαν ... δενδροφορωτάτην προαστείων ούσαν (“the Academy, the
most thickly wooded of the areas outside the city walls”; referring to the
Roman period).
For the hero Hekademos (associated by Stavropoullos 1965 with an ear-
ly cult-building in the area of the Academy, a suggestion seemingly con-
firmed by the discovery of an in situ late 6th-century boundary stone reading
[1ι]όρος τές Ιιεκαδεμείας - IG I3 1091), see Weber 1925. 142-8; Beazley 1954.
187; Stavropoullos 1965; Coldstream 1976. 16; Threatte 1980.128; Kearns 1989.
157; and on hero-cult generally, Ekroth 2002. For the physical remains of
the area, see Travlos 1971. 42-51; Caruso 2013, and cf. fr. 65 n. on gymnasia
generally. For the Academy in the 4th century BCE as the site of Plato’s school,
cf. Antiph. fr. 35.5; Ephipp. fr. 14.2; Epicr. fr. 10.11.