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Marinus, 5th century
Marinus, 5th century
c. 440 CE–c. 500 CE · Athens
Marinus of Neapolis (5th century CE) was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher who succeeded Proclus as head of the Platonic school at Athens. He is best known for his biography 'Life of Proclus,' a valuable account of his teacher and of the late Athenian Neoplatonist circle, and he also worked in mathematics and astronomy. His own surviving output is small.
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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, Damascius, Simplicius, Priscianus Lydus
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In the same tradition
Proclus the Grammarian, Proclus, Damascius, Simplicius, Priscianus Lydus
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