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From under the unpaved parking lot the fabled Lyceum emerged, replete with a central courtyard and wrestling area, or palaestra.

“The amphitheater was in the right place…in relationship to the palaestra,” a large open area for sporting activities, Yeomans says, calling it “a detail only someone like me would notice.”

Beyond this, on the way to the east coast, are the remains of the new and the old palaestra, also partially excavated.

The importance attached to this exercise is shown by the very word palaestra, and Plutarch calls it the most artistic and cunning of athletic games.

For children and youths under the ephebic age there was no practical regulation of schools or palaestra by the state.