The Lyceum (Ancient Greek: Λύκειον, "Lykeion") was a gymnasium and before that a public meeting place in a grove of trees in Classical Athens. The grove was named in honor of its patron Apollo Lyceus or "Apollo in the form of a wolf". Though best known for its connection with Aristotle the Lyceum was in existence long before the peripatetic school he founded there in 334 or 335 BCE and continued long after his flight from Athens in 323 BCE under several scholarchs or school heads until the Roman general Sulla sacked Athens in 86 BCE. The remains of the Lyceum were discovered in modern Athens in 1996 in a park behind the Hellenic Parliament.

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