The garden of The Lyceum, a temple dedicated to Apollo Lyceus.
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The garden of The Lyceum, a temple dedicated to Apollo Lyceus.
Best known for the Peripatetic school of philosophy founded there by Aristotle in 334 BC. During a 1996 excavation to clear space for Athens' new Museum of Modern Art, the remains of Aristotle's Lyceum were uncovered. Descriptions from the works of ancient heirs hint at the location of the grounds, speculated to be somewhere just outside the eastern boundary of ancient Athens, near the rivers Ilissos and Eridanos, and close to Lycabettus Hill. The excavation site is located in downtown Athens, by the junction of Rigillis and Vasilissis Sofias Streets