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News: Spring 1997

Lyceum Found!

January saw one of the greatest archaeological finds of the decade, when the remains of the building which once housed Aristotle’s school of philosophy were discovered under a car park in central Athens.

The Lyceum was founded by Aristotle in 335BC, and took its name from the public garden in which it was situated. Classical literature contains some quite detailed descriptions of it, but its precise location had been lost until now. It is known to have included a gymnasium and a long, covered colonnade or peripatos, in which Aristotle used to wander while talking to his students. From this habit, his followers became known as the Peripatetics.

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