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====Continuity of the Academy====
[[File:Plato Academy MAN Napoli Inv124545.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|The Academy as depicted in a mosaic.]]
In around 266 BCE, Arcesilaus became the Scholarch or head of the Academy.<ref>For more on Arcesilaus, see: Algra, Keimpe, ed. 2005. The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. 1st pbk. ed. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, pg. 324. </ref> He developed what became known as the Skeptical school of Platonism. This period saw influences by the Skeptics and Stoics on many philosophical ideas, although the Platonist skeptics criticized both. Skepticism saw that the universe was unknowable, and it was folly to pursue it.
