Peripatetic School
<p>The <b>Peripatetic school</b> was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_thought" title="School of thought">school</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_philosophy" title="Ancient Greek philosophy">philosophy</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">Ancient Greece</a>.</p>
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Its teachings derived from its founder, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a>, and <i>peripatetic</i> is an adjective ascribed to his followers. </p>
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The school originally derived its name <i>Peripatos</i> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: Περίπατος) from the <i>peripatoi</i> (περίπατοι, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonnade" title="Colonnade">colonnades</a>") of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyceum_%28Classical%29" title="Lyceum (Classical)">Lyceum</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a> where the members met. </p>
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A similar Greek word <i>peripatetikos</i> (περιπατητικός) refers to the act of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking" title="Walking">walking</a>, and as an adjective, "peripatetic" is often used to mean itinerant, wandering, meandering, or walking about. </p>
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After Aristotle's death, a legend arose that he was a "peripatetic" lecturer – that he walked about as he taught – and the designation <i>Peripatetikos</i> came to replace the original <i>Peripatos</i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" >[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a></i>]</sup>
The school dates from around 335 BCE when Aristotle began teaching in the Lyceum. It was an informal institution whose members conducted philosophical and scientific inquiries. Aristotle's successors <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophrastus" title="Theophrastus">Theophrastus</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strato_of_Lampsacus" title="Strato of Lampsacus">Strato</a> continued the tradition of exploring philosophical and scientific theories, but after the middle of the 3rd century BCE, the school fell into a decline, and it was not until the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_era" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman era">Roman era</a> that there was a revival. Later members of the school concentrated on preserving and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_Aristotle" title="Commentaries on Aristotle">commenting on Aristotle's works</a> rather than extending them, and the school eventually died out in the 3rd century CE.
Although the school died out, the study of Aristotle's works continued by scholars who were called Peripatetics through Later Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. After the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empire" title="Fall of the Western Roman Empire">fall of the Western Roman Empire</a>, the works of the Peripatetic school were lost to the west, but in the east they were incorporated into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Islamic_philosophy" title="Early Islamic philosophy">early Islamic philosophy</a>, which would play a large part in the revival of Aristotle's doctrines in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a>.</p>