Before revision: Academic skepticism refers to the skeptical period of ancient Platonism dating from around 266 BC , when Arcesilaus became scholarch of the Platonic Academy, until around 90 BC , when Antiochus of Ascalon rejected skepticism, although individual philosophers, such as Favorinus and his teacher Plutarch, continued to defend skepticism after this date.
After revision: Academic skepticism refers to the skeptical period of ancient Platonism dating from around 266 BCE , when Arcesilaus became scholarch of the Platonic Academy, until around 90 BCE , when Antiochus of Ascalon rejected skepticism, although individual philosophers, such as Favorinus and his teacher Plutarch, continued to defend skepticism after this date.