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The Wikipedia article on The Platonic Academy says that "Justinian actually closing the school has come under some recent scrutiny"... so what's the story here? And if there was a purge, who was being purged? Polytheists? Intellectuals? Both?

by /u/BuckminsterJones in /r/AskHistorians

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