Lyceum Unleashed: Aristotle, the Walking School, and the World’s First Library

Take a stroll through ancient Athens’ Lyceum, a bustling crossroads of sport, religion, philosophy, and science—long before Aristotle’s footsteps, and even as a cradle for the first European library. We’ll trace its many roles: the gymnasium and cavalry drills, the religious ties to Apollo Lyceus, and the lively debates of Socrates, the Sophists, and Prodigus. Then enter Aristotle’s moving classroom, where students walk the grounds as ideas move with them, and the Lyceum becomes a vast repository of knowledge. See how Alexander’s gifts sparked early zoology and botany, how the library journeys from Athens to Skepsis and back, and how Andronicus of Rhodes would later organize Aristotle’s surviving works. A tale of a place that blended theory with practice—and what happened to it all.

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