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Lyceum (classical)
Public meeting place in Classical Athens / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Lykeion" redirects here. For modern high schools, see Education in Greece § Lyceum.
The Lyceum (Ancient Greek: Λύκειον, romanized: Lykeion) was a temple in Athens dedicated to Apollo Lyceus ("Apollo the wolf-god"[1]).
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It was best known for the Peripatetic school of philosophy founded there by Aristotle in 334 BC. Aristotle fled Athens in 323 BC,[2] and the university continued to function after his lifetime under a series of leaders until the Roman general Sulla destroyed it during his assault on Athens in 86 BC.[3]
The remains of the Lyceum were discovered in modern Athens in 1996 in a park behind the Hellenic Parliament.[4]