Damascius
c. 458 CE–c. 538 CE · Athens
Last head of the Athenian Academy when Justinian closed it in 529; 'the last of the Neoplatonists' and a subtle metaphysician of the ineffable First.
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AthensAttica (Greece)
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About Athens
Athens, the capital of Greece since 1834, was the leading intellectual centre of the classical Greek world. Socrates taught there, and four major philosophical schools took root in the city: Plato's Academy, founded around 387 BCE, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa of Zeno, and Epicurus' Garden. Under Hellenistic and Roman rule Athens remained a place of study that drew students from across the empire; in the 4th century CE the Christian writers Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus studied there together, while Neoplatonist teachers kept lecturing. Emperor Justinian's ban on pagan teaching of philosophy in 529 is generally taken to mark the end of the city's ancient history.
In Athens at the same time
Proclus the Grammarian, Proclus, Marinus, 5th century, Simplicius, Priscianus Lydus
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In the same place & time
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In the same tradition
Proclus the Grammarian, Proclus, Marinus, 5th century, Simplicius, Priscianus Lydus
The world in their lifetime
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