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)
We know they were here, but the specifics of what they did at this stop aren’t recorded yet in our corpus.
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
Proclus the Grammarian, Proclus, Marinus, 5th century, Simplicius, Priscianus Lydus
Across the traditions, in Athens at the same time
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Damascius’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Proclus the Grammarian, Proclus, Marinus, 5th century, Simplicius, Priscianus Lydus
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Damascius’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Nonnus of Panopolis· 415 CE–475 CE
- Glycerius· 420 CE–480 CE
- Anthemius· 420 CE–472 CE
- Libius Severus· 420 CE–465 CE
- Majorian· 420 CE–461 CE
- Julius Nepos· 430 CE–480 CE
- Olybrius· 430 CE–472 CE
- Ammonius· 440 CE–520 CE
- Zosimus· 460 CE–520 CE
- Romulus Augustulus· 465 CE–511 CE
- Colluthus of Lycopolis· 470 CE–520 CE
- Boethius· 477 CE–524 CE
- Eutocius· 480 CE–540 CE
- John Philoponus· 490 CE–570 CE
- Procopius· 500 CE–565 CE
- Olympiodorus· 500 CE–570 CE
- David the Invincible· 500 CE–575 CE
- Elias Neoplatonicus· 515 CE–580 CE
- Agathias Scholasticus· 530 CE–582 CE
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Works
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