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Akademos (Greek ) (or Hekademos (???d?µ??), Academus, or Hecademus) was an Attic
Attica

Attica is a Peripheries of Greece in Greece, containing Athens, the capital of Greece. Attica is subdivided into the prefectures of Greece of Athens Prefecture, Piraeus Prefecture, East Attica and West Attica....
 hero in Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
. The tale traditionally told of him is that when Castor and Polydeuces
Castor and Pollux

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Castor and Pollux were the twin sons of Leda and Zeus/Tyndareus , the brothers of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra and the half-brothers of Timandra , Phoebe, Heracles, Philonoe....
 invaded Attica to liberate their sister Helen
Helen

In Greek mythology, Helen , better known as Helen of Sparta later Helen of Troy, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda , wife of King Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor and Pollux, Castor and Pollux and Clytemnestra....
, he betrayed to them that she was kept concealed at Aphidnae
Afidnes

Afidnes , older forms: Afidnai, Afidne, Latin: Aphidnae is a suburb in Attica, Greece just about 28 km north of Athens. From the medieval times to the late 20th century, the village was known as Kiourka....
. For this reason the Tyndarids
Tyndareus

In Greek mythology, Tyndareus ???da?e?? was a Sparta king, son of Oebalus and Gorgophone , husband of Leda and father of Helen, Castor and Polydeuces, Clytemnestra, Timandra , Phoebe and Philonoe....
 always showed him much gratitude, and whenever the Lacedaemonians invaded Attica, they always spared the land belong­ing to Academus which lay on the Cephissus
Cephissus (Athenian plain)

Cephissus or Cephisus , a river flowing through the Athenian plain.In his summary of Greek mythology Apollodorus declares that Erechtheus' wife Praxithea was daughter of Phrasimus by Diogenia daughter of Cephissus....
, six stadia
Stade

Stade is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany and part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region . It is the seat of the Stade named after it. The city was first mentioned in a document from 994....
 from Athens.






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Akademos (Greek ) (or Hekademos (???d?µ??), Academus, or Hecademus) was an Attic
Attica

Attica is a Peripheries of Greece in Greece, containing Athens, the capital of Greece. Attica is subdivided into the prefectures of Greece of Athens Prefecture, Piraeus Prefecture, East Attica and West Attica....
 hero in Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
. The tale traditionally told of him is that when Castor and Polydeuces
Castor and Pollux

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Castor and Pollux were the twin sons of Leda and Zeus/Tyndareus , the brothers of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra and the half-brothers of Timandra , Phoebe, Heracles, Philonoe....
 invaded Attica to liberate their sister Helen
Helen

In Greek mythology, Helen , better known as Helen of Sparta later Helen of Troy, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda , wife of King Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor and Pollux, Castor and Pollux and Clytemnestra....
, he betrayed to them that she was kept concealed at Aphidnae
Afidnes

Afidnes , older forms: Afidnai, Afidne, Latin: Aphidnae is a suburb in Attica, Greece just about 28 km north of Athens. From the medieval times to the late 20th century, the village was known as Kiourka....
. For this reason the Tyndarids
Tyndareus

In Greek mythology, Tyndareus ???da?e?? was a Sparta king, son of Oebalus and Gorgophone , husband of Leda and father of Helen, Castor and Polydeuces, Clytemnestra, Timandra , Phoebe and Philonoe....
 always showed him much gratitude, and whenever the Lacedaemonians invaded Attica, they always spared the land belong­ing to Academus which lay on the Cephissus
Cephissus (Athenian plain)

Cephissus or Cephisus , a river flowing through the Athenian plain.In his summary of Greek mythology Apollodorus declares that Erechtheus' wife Praxithea was daughter of Phrasimus by Diogenia daughter of Cephissus....
, six stadia
Stade

Stade is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany and part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region . It is the seat of the Stade named after it. The city was first mentioned in a document from 994....
 from Athens. This piece of land was subsequently adorned with plane and olive plantations, and was called Academia from its original owner.

His name was linked to the archaic name for the site of Plato
Plato

Plato , was a Classical Greece Greeks philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Platonic Academy in Ancient Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world....
's Academy
Platonic Academy

For the Raphael painting, see The School of AthensThe Academy was founded by Plato in ca. 387 BC in Classical Athens. It persisted throughout the Hellenistic period as a philosophical skepticism school, until coming to an end after the death of Philo of Larissa in 83 BC....
, the Hekademeia, outside the walls of Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
. The site was sacred to Athena, the goddess of wisdom
Wisdom

Wisdom is knowledge, understanding, experience, discretion, and Intuition , along with a capacity to apply these qualities well towards finding solutions to problems....
, and other immortals; it had sheltered her religious cult since the Bronze Age, which was perhaps associated with the hero-gods, the Dioskouroi (Castor and Polydeukes), for the hero Akademos associated with the site was credited with revealing to the Divine Twins where Theseus had hidden Helen of Troy. By classical times the name of the place had evolved into the Akademeia.

Akademeia was the source of the word "academy". The expression "The Grove of Academe" goes back to the sacred site of Hekademos where the cult had once taken place in an olive grove sacred to Athene.