ABSTRACT
Academicians: sometimes referred to as members of the “New Academy,” the Academicians came together under the Greek philosopher Arcesilaus’s distaste for the methods of Plato’s early works in the third century b.c.e. Under its most influential head, Carneades, Academicians gained the status of skeptics. While the school itself fell apart in doctrinal disarray in the first century b.c.e., a group of philosophers in the fourth century c.e. revived the skepticism of the Academicians through the influence of the Roman orator and philosopher Cicero’s writings.
