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Akadimia (Greek: Ακαδημία, pronounced [a.ka.ðiˈmi.a]), literally "Academy", is a neighborhood in central Athens, Greece.

Located directly north and slight west of Syntagma Square, it is bounded by Akadimias Street, Panepistimiou Street, Solonos Street and Stadiou Street. It is named after the Academy of Athens, since this was the first educational building to be built there in 1859. One of the busiest areas of Athens, many important buildings are found here.

The Panepistimio metro station serves Line 2 of the Athens Metro, while there is a tram stop at Plateia Klafthmonos.

Notable buildings

Academy of Athens

Athens Law School

Catholic Church of Agios Dionysios

Central Offices of the Bank of Greece

Council of State

Eye Hospital

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

National Library of Greece

State Legal Council

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Also known as Akadimia

Notable quotes

“Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.”
— Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Writings (1971), p. 2
“Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young men who genuinely thirst for truth and justice. Numerous are the wares that nature produces by the dozen, but her choice products are few.”
— Albert Einstein, “On Academic Freedom,” Ideas and Opinions (1954).
“When one of Feuerbach’s friends attempts to get him an academic position, Feuerbach writes to him: “The more people make of me, the less I am, and vice versa. I am … something only so long as I am nothing.””
— Karl Löwith, From Hegel to Nietzsche, D. Green, trans. (1964), pp. 68-69.
“Academe has become a multinational corporation, and scholars have become businessmen, mobile merchants on the make.”
— Camille Paglia, “Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf,” Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring, 1991), p. 172
“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.”
— Nassim N. Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 4.
“To offer one’s beauty for money to all comers is called prostitution. … So is it with wisdom. Those who offer it to all comers for money are known as sophists, prostitutors of wisdom.”
— Xenophon, Socrates in Memorabilia, 1.6.11

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