Λύκειον
Lykeion, Lyceum
Translated by David Whitehead6 Dec 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
The Lykeion [is] one of the gymnasia in Athens. Theopompus says that Peisistratos created it, but Philochorus [says] that it came into existence under the chairmanship of Pericles.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λύκειον· ἓν τῶν παρ' Ἀθηναίοις γυμνασίων τὸ Λύκειον. ὃ Θεόπομπος μὲν Πεισίστρατον ποιῆσαί φησι, Φιλόχορος δὲ ἐπιστατοῦντος Περικλέους γενέσθαι.
Betacode
*lu/keion: e(\n tw=n par' *)aqhnai/ois gumnasi/wn to\ *lu/keion. o(\ *qeo/pompos me\n *peisi/straton poih=sai/ fhsi, *filo/xoros de\ e)pistatou=ntos *perikle/ous gene/sqai.
Notes (1)
- Abridged from Harpokration s.v., commenting on Demosthenes 24.114. See also lambda 801.
The name of the Lykeion is best known for a fact not mentioned here: being the chosen location for the philosophical school founded by Aristotle in the C4 BCE. See generally OCD(4) pp.160 (under 'Aristotle') and 1108 (under 'Peripatetic school'). - 1Theopompus FGrH 115 F136; Philochorus FGrH 328 F37. For Peisistratos see generally pi 1474; for Pericles, pi 1179, pi 1180, pi 1181. ↩
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- λ801ΛύκειονLykeion, LyceumA gymnasium at Athens, where before the war it seemed a good idea to to exercise -- for prior to the sorties certain armed parades used to occur in the Lykeion, because of its proximity to the city, and displays of the…
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