Lyceum

Definition: The Lyceum was the school the philosopher Aristotle set up in Athens, on the site of the Temple of Apollo of Lyceus, by 335 B.C. As Aristotle talked with his students, he walked around, and so the school was known, by the Greek term for this action, as the Peripatetic school. In 322, Aristotle left the Lyceum and his writing to his disciple Theophrastus. Strato of Lampsacus succeeded Theophrastus and focused the school on empirical scientific work.

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