Scylax of Caryanda
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Scylax of Caryanda was a Greek explorer and writer of the Achaemenid Empire during the late 6th and early 5th centuries BCE. His writings are lost, though occasionally they are cited or quoted by late
The greatest extent of the Achaemenid Empire in the east (Oxford Atlas of World History, 2002)
Peripatetic school
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The Peripatetic school was a philosophical school founded in 335 BC by Aristotle in the Lyceum in ancient Athens. It was an informal institution whose members conducted philosophical and scientific in
Aristotle and his disciples – Alexander, Demetrius, Theophrastus, and Strato – in an 1888 fresco in the portico of the National University of Athens
Aristotle's School, a painting from the 1880s by Gustav Adolph Spangenberg