After Philip’s death in 336 BC Aristotle returned to Athens, where he founded his own school, the Lyceum. This was one of the four great schools of Athens, the others being Plato’s Academy, the Garden of Epicurus, and the Colonnade (or Stoa) of the Stoics. The Lyceum continued for centuries, probably until it was closed in the sack of Athens by Roman soldiers under Sulla in 86 BC. It was outlasted, though, by Plato’s Academy, which continued in one form or another until AD 529, enduring longer than any European university has lasted so far.
