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'''The Ateneo''' is the official title for [[Jesuit]] institutions of learning in the [[Philippines]].

The word "Ateneo" is the Spanish form of "Athenaeum". The Dictionary of Classical Antiquities thus explains "Atheneaum":

:''The name of the first  educational  institution  at   Rome, built  by  Hadrian about  135  A.D....   There   rhetoricians and poets held  their recitations, and salaried  professors gave  their lectures in  the various branches  of  general liberal education, philosophy and rhetoric, as well as grammar and jurisprudence.''

The following is a list of Ateneo schools, with year of establishment in parentheses:

* [[Ateneo de Manila University]] (1859)
* [[Ateneo de Zamboanga University]] (1916)
* [[Xavier University (Cagayan de Oro)|Xavier University (Ateneo de Cagayan)]] (1933)
* [[Ateneo de Naga University]] (1940)
* [[Ateneo de Davao University]] (1948)

== External links ==

* [http://www.ateneo.net/ Jesuit University System in the Philippines]

* [http://www.admu.edu.ph/  Ateneo de Manila University]
* [http://www.addu.edu.ph/  Ateneo de Davao University]
* [http://www.adnu.edu.ph/  Ateneo de Naga University]
* [http://www.adzu.edu.ph/  Ateneo de Zamboanga University]
* [http://www.xu.edu.ph/  Xavier University (Ateneo de Cagayan)]


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