Athenaeum (Rome)

The Athenaeum ( Athenaion ) is actually a sanctuary of the goddess Athena , but then an educational institution founded by Emperor Hadrian around 135 in Rome , which included subjects of general sciences, the so-called artes liberales (today English still Liberal Arts). The building was also called Hadrian's Auditorium . Writers also read their works here in public.

Similar sites were established in the provinces, including Lyon and Nîmes . In Constantinople , Emperor Theodosius II founded such an Athenaeum in 425, the so-called University of Constantinople .

building

In the course of the excavations for the construction of the Metro line C between 2007 and 2011, the remains of Hadrian's Athenaeum were uncovered in the Piazza Madonna di Loreto near the Piazza Venezia .

Individual evidence

^ Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon. 14., completely reworked Edition Brockhaus: Leipzig, Berlin a. Vienna, Vol. 2, p. 28.
^ Parco archeologico del Colosseo - Auditoria di Adriano. In: http://www.beniculturali.it . Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali, accessed on May 6, 2019 (Italian).

[1] Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon. 14., completely reworked Edition Brockhaus: Leipzig, Berlin a. Vienna, Vol. 2, p. 28.

[2] Parco archeologico del Colosseo - Auditoria di Adriano. In: http://www.beniculturali.it . Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali, accessed on May 6, 2019 (Italian).