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Athens Prefecture
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Lyceum

The Lyceum (, Ancient Greek: Λύκειον, romanized: Lykeion /lý.keː.on/ was a temple in dedicated to Apollo Lyceus. It was best known for the Peripatetic school of philosophy founded there by Aristotle in 334 BC.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: public meeting place in Classical Athens
  • Also known as: “Aristotle’s Lyceum”
  • Wheelchair access: limited

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Byzantine and Christian Museum and Museum of Cycladic Art.

Museum
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The is situated at Vassilissis Sofias Avenue in , Greece. is situated 160 metres northeast of Lyceum.

Museum
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The Nikolaos P. Goulandris Foundation - is a museum in that houses a notable collection of artifacts of Cycladic art. The museum was founded in 1986 in order to house the collection of Cycladic and Ancient Greek art belonging to Nikolaos and Dolly Goulandris. is situated 210 metres northwest of Lyceum.

Museum
The Athens is the military museum of the Greek Armed Forces. It is located at the Athens city center and it is served by the Athens Metro station of . is situated 230 metres northeast of Lyceum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rigillis and Pangrati.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in , , having an estimated population of 35,173 residents. Named after the ancient sanctuary of Hercules Pancrates, its frontage runs from Vasilissis Sofias Avenue along to Vasileos Konstantinou Avenue and Vassileos Alexandrou Avenue, just a few minutes walk from the .

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is the capital city of with a metropolitan population of 3.15 million inhabitants. It was a major cultural, political and religious centre of Classical Greece, a place that deeply influenced the course of Western civilization.

Lyceum

Latitude
37.97403° or 37° 58′ 27″ north
Longitude
23.7434° or 23° 44′ 36″ east
Elevation
108 metres (354 feet)
Open location code
8G95XPFV+J9
Open­Street­Map ID
way 82150737
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­limited
Geo­Names ID
7910527
Wiki­data ID
Q1160664
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Urdu—“Lyceum” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Liceu i lashtë”
  • Albanian: “Liceumi antik”
  • Arabic: “ليقيون”
  • Azerbaijani: “Likeion”
  • Basque: “Lizeoa”
  • Catalan: “Liceu d’Aristòtil”
  • Catalan: “Liceu”
  • Cebuano: “Lyceum”
  • Chinese: “吕刻昂”
  • Croatian: “Licej”
  • Danish: “Lykeion”
  • Dutch: “Lykeion”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليقيون”
  • Estonian: “Lykeion”
  • Finnish: “Lykeion”
  • French: “Lycée d’Aristote”
  • French: “Lycée”
  • German: “Lykeion”
  • Greek: “Αρχαιολογικός Χώρος Λυκείου”
  • Greek: “Λύκειο Αριστοτέλη”
  • Greek: “Λύκειο”
  • Greek: “Λύκειον”
  • Hebrew: “ליקיאון”
  • Hungarian: “Lükeion”
  • Icelandic: “Lýkeion”
  • Indonesian: “Likeion”
  • Italian: “Liceo di Aristotele”
  • Italian: “Liceo”
  • Japanese: “リュケイオン”
  • Kazakh: “Ликей”
  • Korean: “리케이온”
  • Latin: “Lyceum”
  • Malayalam: “ലൈസിയം”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lykeion”
  • Norwegian: “Lykeion”
  • Papiamento: “Liseo (klásiko)”
  • Papiamento: “Liseo”
  • Persian: “لوکئوم”
  • Persian: “لیسیوم”
  • Polish: “Lykeion”
  • Polish: “Lýkeion”
  • Portuguese: “Liceu (clássico)”
  • Portuguese: “Liceu”
  • Pushto: “لايسيوم (لرغونی)”
  • Pushto: “لايسيوم”
  • Romanian: “Liceu”
  • Russian: “Ликей”
  • Serbian: “Лицеј”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Licej”
  • Slovak: “Lykeion”
  • Spanish: “Liceo de Aristóteles”
  • Spanish: “Liceo”
  • Swedish: “Lyceum”
  • Swedish: “Lykeion”
  • Turkish: “Likeion”
  • Turkish: “Lykeion”
  • Ukrainian: “Ліцей”
  • Urdu: “لیکیون”
  • Urdu: “لییوم”

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