- Title: GREECE: ARCHAELOLOGISTS BELIEVE THEY HAVE FOUND THE ANCIENT LYCEUM.
- Date: 16th January 1997
- Summary: ATHENS, GREECE (JANUARY 16, 1997) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) PT MUTE 1. LV: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE IN ATHENS (4 SHOTS) 0.17 2. MV: CULTURE MINISTER EVANGELOS VENIZELOS ANNOUNCING: THE EXCAVATION HAS PRODUCED FINDS THAT ACCORDING TO ARCHAEOLOGISTS IDENTIFY THE AREA WITH THE LYCEUM IN THE CITY OF ATHENS" (GREEK) 0.29 3. GV: SITE (2 SHOTS) 0.37 (MUTE) 4. RAPHAEL'S PAINTING "THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS" 0.51 5. GV: BOB WALLACE VISITING PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY IN CHICAGO 0.55 6. MCU: WALLACE SAYING, "IT IS POTENTIALLY AN EXTRAORDINARILLY SIGNIFICANT FIND GIVEN THAT ARISTOTLE AND PLATO HAD THE TWO MOST FAMOUS SCHOOLS IN GREECE AND REALLY IN THE WESTERN WORLD. (ENGLISH) 1.18 7. CU: BUST OF ARISTOTLE 1.27 8. LV: SITE 1.32 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: ATHENS, GREECE
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- Country: Greece
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- Story Text: INTRO: Greek archaeologists believe they have found the ancient Lyceum, the school where the philosopher Aristotle and other great classical minds taught young Athenians.
-------------------------------------------------------------------- Reports indicate one of Athens's great ancient schools had been located under a sprawling car parking lot near the heart of the capital, about two km (1.2 miles) from the Acropolis, Culture Minister Evangelos Venizelos said.
Archaeologists digging ahead of the construction of a new modern art museum on the spot found a gymnasium dating to Roman times. Under this they unearthed the major part of a wrestling arena dating to the 4th century BC, when Aristotle taught and wrote about politics, science and ethics, laying the foundations of Western thinking.
Excavators said the arena was well-preserved and offered a wide range of evidence indicating it was part of the Lyceum complex and used until the end of the 4th century BC.
Aristotle, who studied under Plato and taught Macedonian king Alexander the Great, liked to take small groups of students for walks under the arcade of his Lyceum.
He opened his Lyceum after leaving Plato's Academy, another of ancient Greece's great schools, near central Athens.
The ministry said it will consider whether to go ahead with the construction of the museum after archaeologists submit a detailed report.
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