The Lyceum of Aristoteles

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By 336 BC the philosopher Greek Aristotle founded in Athens, the first philosophical school, where he taught his pupils, then it was called Lyceum for being near the temple destined to Apollo Likeios, next to the Lyceum There was a gymnasium that was used by young people of the place, later other philosophers of the time gave classes there, later like the Peripatetic school, they also taught Teofaster successor of Aristotle at the Lyceum, also Andronicus of Rhodas. Aristotle studied with Plato and was the tutor of Alexander the Great. There the elite of Greek society were educated, it was one of the three philosophical schools of the time. The ruins of the Lyceum founded by Aristotle were found in the center of Athens, just over a kilometer from the Acropolis. In 1996 when they were building the Museum of Modern Art, they unearthed part of the arena where the students trained in fighting, after finding the ruins, it was said that it will be an Open Air Museum. Those ruins were searched for 150 years.
According to sources from the Greek Ministry of Culture, the works will be financed by private capital and will consist of placing a translucent rooftop on the ruins of the Lyceum to be able to appreciate the remains of some of the facilities such as a fighting room, and baths from the Roman era. The ruins are well preserved and places were found for both mind and body development.
The Greek Ministry wants to find a formula that unites ancient and modern architecture and that the two can coexist.


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