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…Eudoxus, who was already an independent researcher, joined the school along with his disciples, and Aristotle enrolled at the age of 17. The school attracted researchers and students from all over Greece. After Plato's death, his nephew Speusippus became the second head of the school, and was succeeded by Xenocrates. The school's academic tendencies changed from idealistic metaphysics to mathematism, and from skepticism to eclecticism, and there were periods of interruption, but it continued to exist for over 900 years until it was suspended by a decree from the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian (529), and played a major role as a center of academic research in the ancient Greek and Roman world. …

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…学園にはすでに独立の研究者であったエウドクソスがその弟子とともに加わり,アリストテレスが17歳で入門するなど,広くギリシア各地から研究者や学生が集まった。プラトンの没後,甥のスペウシッポスSpeusipposが第2代学頭となり,クセノクラテスがその後を継いだ。学園はその学問の傾向において,イデア論的形而上学から数学主義,懐疑主義から折衷主義へと変わり,また中断の時期はあったが,東ローマ皇帝ユスティニアヌスの勅令(529)による活動停止まで900年余にわたって存続し,古代ギリシア・ローマ世界における学問研究のセンターとして大きな役割を果たした。…

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