ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Lyceum, Athenian school founded by Aristotle in 335 bc in a grove sacred to Apollo Lyceius. Owing to his habit of walking about the grove while lecturing his students, the school and its students acquired the label of Peripatetics (Greek peri, “around, ” and patein, “to walk”).

Detailed explanation-2: -The Lyceum was a gymnasium near Athens and the site of a philosophical school founded by Aristotle.

Detailed explanation-3: -Aristotle returned to Athens in 335 BC and established a school in one of the buildings of the Lyceum, lecturing there as well as writing most of his books and collecting books for the first European library in history.

Detailed explanation-4: -After Plato’s death, Aristotle found his own school called The Lyceum in 335 BCE. The Lykeion or Lyceum of Aristotle was also called the “Peripatetic School", because students and teachers, would stroll (walk) the tree lines grounds during the course of lectures.

Detailed explanation-5: -Etymology. From Ancient Greek (Lúkeion) (the name of a gymnasium, or athletic training facility, near Athens where Aristotle established his school), from ("Lycian” or “wolf-killer").