Lyceum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Chris de Lisle, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, R. Scott Smith, Rosemary Selth
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 28, 2025 08:12 PM
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History
A sanctuary of Apollo Lyceios in Athens, which served as the seat of Aristotle's Peripatetic school of philosophy founded in 335/4 BCE. The Lyceum was destroyed by Sulla in 86 BCE.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/122572945
37.9740309829, 23.7433796972
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Aristotle's Lyceum (550 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Λύκειον (Lykeion: Ancient Greek, unspecified date range)
- Lyceum located at Athenae (unspecified date range)
- Ardettos located near Lyceum (30 BC - AD 300)
- Diochares' Gate/Gate VIII located near Lyceum (30 BC - AD 300)
- Less than certain: Palladion located near Lyceum (30 BC - AD 300)
sanctuary (religious center), architectural complex, gymnasium, gymnasion
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, Chris de Lisle, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, R. Scott Smith, and Rosemary Selth, 'Lyceum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/122572945> [accessed: 08 February 2026]
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