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
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
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 and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Damascius’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Works
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