The Lyceum was a public gymnasium and grove in ancient Athens, dedicated to Apollo Lykeios, which became famous as the school established by Aristotle after he returned to the city. Aristotle taught there while walking in the covered walks, which gave his followers the name Peripatetics. The school pursued research in a wide range of subjects, including biology, logic, ethics, politics and physics, and collected manuscripts and specimens. Aristotle's successor Theophrastus led it afterward, and it remained an active centre for a time. The Roman general Sulla's siege of Athens in the first century BCE devastated the grove, and the school declined. The remains of the Lyceum were rediscovered in the 1990s during construction work in Athens.
Before and after
- from 343 BCE to 290 BCESamnite Wars
- 342 BCEBirth of Epicurus
- from 341 BCE to 338 BCESecond Latin War
- from 336 BCE to 323 BCEWars of Alexander the Great
- from 335 BCE to 86 BCEConstruction of Lyceum
- 335 BCERise of peripatetic school
- 335 BCEAlexander the Great crosses into Asia
- from January 332 BCE to July 332 BCESiege of Tyre
- 20 January 330 BCEBattle of the Persian Gate on the Mountain
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