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Eusebius of Myndus
Eusebius of Myndus
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Eusebius of Myndus was a Neoplatonist philosopher of the 4th century CE, a pupil of Aedesius of Pergamon (in the school descending from Iamblichus). He is known chiefly through Eunapius's "Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists." Notably more skeptical of theurgy than his fellow students, he warned the future emperor Julian against the wonder-working of Maximus of Ephesus, urging reasoned philosophy over magical display—counsel Julian famously rejected. Only fragments and reports of his teaching survive. He represents the rationalist current within late-antique Neoplatonism.
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About Myndus
Myndus was a small Greek city of Caria, on the coast of the Halicarnassus (Bodrum) peninsula in southwestern Asia Minor (modern Gümüşlük, Turkey). It was the home of the Neoplatonist philosopher Eusebius of Myndus, a pupil of Aedesius in the Pergamene school known for his relatively rationalist stance against theurgy.