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Plutarch of Athens

Plutarch of Athens

c. 350 CE–c. 432 CE · Athens

Founder of the Athenian Neoplatonic school (teacher of Syrianus and Proclus); NOT the biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea (already in roster).

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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

Syrianus, Proclus the Grammarian, Proclus

Across the traditions, in Athens at the same time

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In the same place & time

Sages whose lives overlapped with Plutarch of Athens’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.

Across the traditions

In the same tradition

Syrianus, Proclus the Grammarian, Proclus

The world in their lifetime

Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Plutarch of Athens’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.

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