Aristotle's Lyceum
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2014
- Take a tour round Athens newest oldest site - Aristotle's Lyceum. This beautiful archaeological site was opened to the public in June 2014. Admission is free and the site is currently open from 8 am to 8 pm (summer 2014)
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It's amazing this place is still there. I have to visit someday. The birthplace of so many earth shattering ideas.
No, the Peripatetics were NOT so called because they strolled around; that was just a faukty guess by the Roman author Aulus Gellius centuries later, which has unfortunately stuck (it's even on the signage in the modern Lyceum site!). We know from Aristotle's writings that he taught from lecture notes, pointed at diagrams, etc. when teaching -- in other words, like a modern classroom. The members of his school were called Peripatetics because they met in a Peripatos, a covered walkway or colonnade (just as the Stoics got their name from meeting in the Stoa Poikile).
Thank you, interesting information.
Aristotle did NOT found the Lyceum, the Lyceum was a temple to Apollo Lyceus (the wolfish Apollo). Lyceum literally means "the place of wolves." Aristotle was not even an Athenian and could own no land. The temple was founded centuries earlier, and the most famous Athenian philosophers used the grounds as "schools" well before Aristotle. Key to the Lyceum is that it was outside the city walls, covered a large area, and became a kind of civic center serving every need from gymnasium, to cult gatherings, to armory or troop rally point, to open air performances of bards. After the 338 BC Battle of Chaeronea, Macedon owns Athens, and Aristotle (a Macedonian himself) returns there after feeling in 323 BC as his king (Philip II, father of Alexander) now runs the show, more or less. One imagines Aristotle had great sway over the Lyceum then, he founded a library and wrote extensively for the next 12 years before fleeing to Euboea after being accused of impiety. When I say he "returned there" after Philip II conquered Athens and Thebes, his first time there was at 18 and I believe was also a 12 year stint. One might call Athens Aristotle's "college town" or "Oxford."
Thank you your interesting comments. I am using the name given to this site by the city of Athens, which I see could be historically incorrect!
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can you please advise of the whereabouts of archaeologist Effie Le Gordia (sp?) that is mentioned as a Lyceum researcher in this video?
Torrens Revell i am so sorry but I can't help with that, I'm afraid. I don't know the archaeologist's whereabouts.
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