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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 830 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ATHENAEUM , a name originally applied in See also:

ancient See also:Greece ('ABrtvauw) to buildings dedicated to See also:Athena, and specially used as the designation of a See also:temple in See also:Athens, where poets and men of learning were accustomed to meet and read their productions. The See also:academy for the promotion of learning which the See also:emperor See also:Hadrian built (about A.D. 135) at See also:Rome, near the See also:Forum, was also called the Athenaeum. Poets and orators still met and discussed there, but See also:regular courses of instruction were given by a See also:staff of professors in See also:rhetoric, See also:jurisprudence, See also:grammar and See also:philosophy. The institution, later called Schola See also:Romana, continued in high repute till the 5th See also:century. Similar See also:academies were also founded in the provinces and at See also:Constantinople by the emperor See also:Theodosius II. In See also:modern times the name has been applied to various academies, as those of See also:Lyons and See also:Marseilles, and the Dutch high See also:schools; and it has become a very See also:general designation for See also:literary clubs. It is also See also:familiar as the See also:title of several literary See also:periodicals, notably of the See also:London literary weekly founded in 1828.

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