ellauri099.html on line 205: Two things hit you when you visit the site of the Lyceum and look at its architectural plans. First, it is a direct copy of Plato’s Academy. And second, it is much, much bigger. The relation between the Academy and the Lyceum is a little like that between a twee medieval Cambridge College and the monumental architecture of the University of Chicago.
ellauri099.html on line 211: Whatever the truth of the matter, Aristotle’s endowment allowed him to build a huge research and teaching facility and amass the largest and most important library in the world. During the time of Theophrastus, Aristotle’s successor as scholarch and clearly a very effective college president, there were as many as 2,000 pupils at the Lyceum, some of them sleeping in dormitories. The Lyceum was clearly the place to be, the educational destination of choice for the elites.
ellauri099.html on line 215: The Lyceum was clearly the intellectual projection of Macedonian political and military hegemony. In 323 B.C.E., when news of Alexander the Great’s death in Babylon at the age of 32 reached Athens, simmering anti-Macedonian sentiment spilled over, and the popular Athenian leader Demosthenes was recalled. Aristotle left the city for the last time, in fear of his life, after a little more than a decade in charge of the Lyceum. Seeing himself justly or unjustly in the mirror of Socrates and fearing charges of impiety, Aristotle reportedly said, “I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.” Aristotle withdrew to his late mother’s estate at Chalcis on the island of Euboea and died there shortly after of an unspecified illness, at age 63.
ellauri099.html on line 217: Looking now at the beautifully maintained site of the Lyceum, which is comparatively new by Athenian standards (as excavations only began in 1996, and it was opened to the public in 2014), we are only now beginning to form a proper picture of the plan, architecture and function of the Lyceum.
ellauri099.html on line 219: In the northeast corner of the Lyceum, there was a garden, which possibly led to the peripatos, or shaded walk from which the promenading Peripatetic school derived its name. Indeed, there were gardens in all the earlier philosophical schools, in the schools of Miletus on the present-day Turkish coast, and allegedly in the Pythagorean schools in southern Italy. Plato’s Academy also had a garden. And later, the school of Epicurus was simply called “The Garden.” Theophrastus, a keen botanist like Aristotle who did so much to organize the library and build up its scientific side (with maps, globes, specimens and such like), eventually retired to his garden, which was close by.
ellauri262.html on line 80: After his literary success, MacDonald went on to do a lecture tour in the United States in 1872–1873, after being invited to do so by a lecture company, the Boston Lyceum Bureau. On the tour, MacDonald lectured about other poets such as Robert Burns, Shakespeare, and Tom Hood. He performed this lecture to great acclaim, speaking in Boston to crowds in the neighbourhood of three thousand people. CS Lewis wrote admiringly:
ellauri294.html on line 692: Koulutuksellinen kesäleirimuoto osoittautui suosituksi perheille, ja useat Chautauquat kopioivat sitä laajalti. Kymmenen vuoden sisällä "Chautauqua-kokoonpanot" (tai yksinkertaisesti "Chautauquas"), jotka nimettiin New Yorkin sijainnin mukaan, syntyivät useissa Pohjois-Amerikan paikoissa. 1870-luvulta alkanutta Chautauqua-liikettä voidaan pitää 1840-luvun Lyceum-liikkeen seuraajana. Kun Chautauquat alkoivat kilpailla parhaista esiintyjistä ja luennoitsijoista, lyseon toimistot auttoivat varauksissa. Nykyään Lakeside Chautauqua ja Chautauqua Institution, kaksi suurinta Chautauquaa, houkuttelevat edelleen lähes tuhansia joka kesäkausi.
ellauri294.html on line 694: Tuotteliain puhuja (varattu usein samoihin paikkoihin kolminkertaisen presidenttiehdokas William Jennings Bryanin kanssa) oli Russell Conwell, joka piti kuuluisan " Eekkereittäin timantteja" -puheensa 5000 kertaa yleisölle Chautauqua- ja Lyceum -kierroksilla, joilla oli tämä teema:
ellauri402.html on line 404: Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is best known for writing the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the West End's Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned.
ellauri402.html on line 408: Stoker aloitti romaanien kirjoittamisen työskennellessään Irvingin managerina sekä Lontoon Lyceum Theatren sihteerinä ja johtajana, alkaen Käärmeen passista (The Snake's Pass) vuonna 1890 ja Draculasta vuonna 1897. Tänä aikana hän oli osa The Daily Telegraphin kirjallista henkilökuntaa vuonna 1997 Lontoossa, ja hän kirjoitti muuta fiktiota, mukaan lukien kauhuromaanit Kammoittava kreivi (Dracula), suom 1952, Käärinliinan leidi (The Lady of the Shroud 1909) ja Valkoisen madon luola (The Lair of the White Worm 1911).
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