Cynosarges

The gymnasium (Greek: γυμνάσιον ) Kynosarges ( Κυνόσαργες ) was one of three high schools (sports training facilities ) in ancient Athens. The so-called Academy, named after the prehistoric hero Academos, whose grave was near, was located in the northwest of the city, the Kynosarges and the Lyceum were on the east side. The gymnasium Kynosarges was there from the Athenian city administration to " fake " Athenian citizens, that is, the points arising from mixed marriages with foreigners Athenians allotted for their exercises.

All three schools have become famous through philosophical directions that took advantage of the existing premises to offer their lessons here: the Academy by Plato and the Platonists or academics, the Kynosarges by the Socrates student Antisthenes, the founder of Cynic philosophy, whose mother Thracian was, and the Lyceum of Aristotle and the Peripatetics.

Swell

• Plutarch: Lives. Volume I, published by Georg Müller, Munich and Leipzig, 1913. Chap. Themistocles.