Handbook of Platonism
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Alcinous
Alcinous
c. 100 CE · Athens
Alcinous was a Greek philosopher of the Middle Platonist movement, active probably in the 2nd century CE. He is the author of the 'Didaskalikos' (often translated 'Handbook of Platonism'), a concise summary of Platonic doctrine in physics, ethics, and logic that became an important guide to how Plato was read in later antiquity. Almost nothing is known of his life.
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About Athens
The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.
In Athens at the same time
Plutarch, Lucian of Samosata, Julius Pollux, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Philostratus Sophista, Philostratus the Athenian
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Alcinous’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
In the same tradition
Plutarch, Lucian of Samosata, Julius Pollux, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Philostratus Sophista, Philostratus the Athenian
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Alcinous’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.