II. The Origins of Higher Education at Athens: The Lyceum and Athenian Education before Aristotle

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. Abbreviations XIII
5. Introduction 1
6. I. The Physical Setting: The Lyceum at Athens and Its Location 9
7. II. The Origins of Higher Education at Athens: The Lyceum and Athenian Education before Aristotle 32
8. III. The Founding of the Peripatetic School: The Lyceum in the Time of Aristotle and Theophrastus 68
9. IV. The Legal Status of the Peripatetic School 106
10. V. The Athenian Peripatos and Its Decline Among the Successors of Aristotle and Theophrastus 135
11. VI. How Long Did the Peripatetic School at Athens Last? 163
12. Appendix A. Inscriptions and the Location of the Lyceum 209
13. Appendix B. The Purported Peripatetic Scholarchs of the Centuries A.D. 213
14. Figure 1. The proposed location for the Lyceum 217
15. Bibliography 219
16. Index A. Names and Subjects 225
17. Index B. Ancient Sources 236