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A PAGE FROM THE EARLIEST SURVIVING GREEK BOOK This book, written on papyrus, was found lying beside the body of a man buried in an Egyptian cemetery. What we have called a page is really a column of writing, and the book consisted of a series of such columns side by side on the roll (see cut on next page) 172. The Schools of the University at Athens. Athens was still the leading center of philosophy. The youth who went there to take up philosophical studies found the successors of Plato still continuing his teaching in the quiet grove of the Academy ( 119), where his memory was greatly revered. Plato's pupil Aristotle, after having been the teacher of the young Alexander, had returned to Athens, and had also established at the Lyceum