03 Aristotle's Lyceum

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https://goo.gl/maps/LT9Er4NVo8u. Walk 2,1km 21min

● Aristotle's Lyceum, Peripatetic school of philosophy in 334 BC. (maptogo)
● Byzantine and Christian Museum, ave. Vasilissis Sofias 22, t2132139500. (maptogo)
● Athens War Museum, Rizari 2, t2107252974 http://www.warmuseum.gr. (maptogo)
● Hellenic Children's Museum, ave. Rigillis str, t2103312995. (map) https://www.hcm.gr/ (maptogo)
● Athens Conservatoire, Rigilis 17, t2107240673. (maptogo)
● Villa Ilyssia.http://www.byzantinemuseum.gr/el/museum/villa_ilissia/.
● Church of St. George, Leof. Vasilissis Sofias 254, Athina 106 76.
● Church of St. Nicholas, Οδός Ρηγίλλης, Αθήνα.
● Hilton Athens, Leof. Vasilissis Sofias 46,

TIPS FOR THE PALAESTRA OF THE KYKEION GYMNASIUM.
(Source: Ministry of Culture and Sports, Text E.Banou and Aik.Stamoudi).
"The school of Aristotle, the Lykeion (Lyceum) (335BC), one of the three oldest gymnasia in the city togeather with those of the Academy and Kynosarges, was situated on the outskirts of Ancient Athens,, outside the walls and the Gate of Diochares. As attested by ancient authors, (Plutarch, Strabo, Pusanias), the Lykeion was a very extensive, verdant, area between two rivers, the Eridanos, tothe north and Ilissos to the south, and beside the sanctuary of Lycian Apollo and Heracles Pankrates. Athenian hoplites and ephebes, fulfilling their military duties, exercised in this idyllic area with its abundant waters..
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Aristotle was born in 384 BC in Stageira, Chalkidiki, in 368 he moved to Athens, where he chose to study at Plato's Academy.. His own education was in harmony with the ancient Greek ideals of 5th century BC individual freedom, equality before the low, and participation in the political community.
From 342 BC., when he received an invitation from Philip II, he undertook the education of Alexander, for whom he wrote he edited a special edition of the Homeric epics and wrote two works, On Kingship and On Colonists.
He returned to Athens in 335 BC., where he founded his own philosophical school, the Lykeion", known from the era of his successor Theophrastus as the "peripatos"..