place
the Ptolemaeum (gymnasium at Athens)
the Ptolemaeum
also: Ptolomaeum, Ptolemaeum, gymnasium quod Ptolomaeum vocatur
A gymnasium at Athens near the Agora, named after one of the Ptolemies who endowed it. In the dramatic frame of De Finibus 5.1 the company has just heard Antiochus lecture there before setting out for the Academy.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §5.1 the gymnasium that is called the Ptolemaeum
A gymnasium near the Athenian Agora endowed by one of the Ptolemies of Egypt, used as a lecture hall. The dialogue opens just after the company has heard Antiochus lecture there.