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Priscianus Lydus
Priscianus Lydus
c. 495 CE · Athens
Priscian of Lydia (Priscianus Lydus, active early 6th century CE) was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the group of pagan scholars who left Athens for the Persian court after the closing of the Platonic school there around 529 CE. He is associated with works addressing questions of the soul, perception, and natural philosophy, including answers to questions posed by the Persian king Chosroes. He should not be confused with the contemporaneous Latin grammarian Priscian of Caesarea.
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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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