Ateneo

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The name 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 their year of establishment. (Note that these schools are not officially affiliated in any way other than being administered by the Jesuits.)

Seal	School	Established
	Ateneo de Manila University	1859
	Ateneo de Zamboanga University	1912
	Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan	1933
	Ateneo de Tuguegarao	1938 (closed in the late 1950s)
	Ateneo de Naga University	1940
	Ateneo de Davao University	1948
	Ateneo de San Pablo	1950s (closed in 1978)