The Lyceum of Aristotles originally named after the Sun & Wolf god, Apollo Lyceus. The reason they gathered here was to teach, to examine, as well as to debate about all of life's aspects.

When Aristotle first returned to Athens in the year 335 B.C., he established the school after renting some buildings around the area. He first created the library of Europe, after collecting books from his own travels.

In the Lyceum, Aristotle began to lecture, write philosophical treatises and dialogues until the end of his life. It was Theophrastus that became the head of the school of Lyceum after Aristotle's death in 322 B.C.

Theophrastus continued to lecture and to teach what Aristotle had already established as a school of thought. After Theophrastus died, the library of the Lyceum lost much of its quality due to Neleus of Scepsis, who claimed many of the collection of books and, finally, owned them forever.

In the time of Aristotle, many great philosophers and individuals were in charge of the school, something that made the school itself an open area of thinking and expression, one of the greatest's in human history.

Peripatetic, the most common name for Aristotle's Lyceum, was founded after the Hellenic name "peripatus", which means "walk", something that emerged because of Aristotle's habit to lecture while walking.

The great rival of Plato, a philosopher named Isocrates, was said to teach rhetoric arts in the Lyceum in the middle of the 4th Century B.C. Music, as well as rhapsodies were said to be taught at the Lyceum from other philosophers as well. The Lyceum continued to be one of Athens's gymnasiums, for all kinds of physical exercises and also contained cults of the god Hermes and of Apollo's Muses.