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Albinus
Albinus
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Albinus was a Middle Platonist philosopher active in the 2nd century CE. He studied under the philosopher Gaius and taught at Smyrna, where the physician Galen heard his lectures around 151-152 CE. He is best known for his "Introduction" (Eisagoge or Prologos) to the dialogues of Plato, a short surviving handbook that classifies Plato's dialogues and discusses how to approach reading them. His work reflects the school traditions of Middle Platonism, the revival of Plato's thought that flourished before Neoplatonism. Few biographical details about his life survive.
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SmyrnaIonia (Asia Minor)
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About Smyrna
Smyrna, modern İzmir on the Aegean coast of Turkey, was an ancient Greek city refounded in the fourth century BCE and, under Rome, a leading port of the province of Asia. It was a centre of rhetoric: the sophist Marcus Antonius Polemon taught there, the orator Aelius Aristides was closely associated with it, and it was one of several places claiming to be Homer's birthplace. Its church is one of the seven addressed in the Book of Revelation, and its second-century bishop Polycarp, to whom Ignatius of Antioch wrote and whom Irenaeus knew in his youth, was martyred there. The mathematician Theon of Smyrna and the epic poet Quintus Smyrnaeus take their names from the city.