Lyceum
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the Lyceum
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Euthydemus
Athenian gymnasium where Socrates conversed with Euthydemus, Dionysodorus, Cleinias, and their followers.
Who was it, Socrates, that you were talking with yesterday at the Lyceum?
whereas now almost the very pillars of the Lyceum took part in the joyful acclamations in honor of the pair.
Panathenaicus
The Athenian public setting where the sophists discuss Homer and Hesiod and disparage Isocrates.
As to the poetry of Homer and Hesiod and the rest, I would fain speak—for I think that I could silence those who chant their verses and prate about these poets in the Lyceum—but I perceive that I am being carried beyond the due limits which have been assigned to an introduction;
For some of my friends met me and related to me how, as they were sitting together in the Lyceum, three or four of the sophists of no repute— men who claim to know everything and are prompt to show their presence everywhere—were discussing the poets, especially the poetry of Hesiod and Homer, saying nothing original about them, but merely chanting their verses and repeating from memory the clevere …
Euthyphro
The gymnasium in Athens where Socrates ordinarily spent his time.
What strange thing has happened, Socrates, that you have left your accustomed haunts in the Lyceum and are now haunting the portico where the king archon sits?
Lysis
A gymnasium outside Athens, Socrates' intended destination before he is diverted by Hippothales.
From the Academy, I replied, on my way straight to the Lyceum.
I was making my way from the Academy straight to the Lyceum, by the road outside the town wall,—just under the wall;
Anabasis
Place associated with Cleagoras' mural paintings.
From there they sailed across to Lampsacus, where Xenophon was met by Eucleides, the Phliasian seer, son of the Cleagoras who painted the mural paintings in the Lyceum.
Hellenica
A gymnasium precinct near Athens, adjacent to the race-course by which the men of Piraeus intended to bring up their siege-engines.
when he learned that the enemy were intending to bring up their siege-engines by the race-course which leads from the Lyceum, he ordered all his teams to haul stones each large enough to load a wagon and drop them at whatever spot in the course each driver pleased.