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Marinus, 5th century

Marinus, 5th century

c. 440 CE–c. 500 CE · Athens

Marinus of Neapolis (5th century CE) was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher who succeeded Proclus as head of the Platonic school at Athens. He is best known for his biography 'Life of Proclus,' a valuable account of his teacher and of the late Athenian Neoplatonist circle, and he also worked in mathematics and astronomy. His own surviving output is small.

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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.

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Proclus the Grammarian, Proclus, Damascius, Simplicius, Priscianus Lydus

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