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.
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:
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