In Aristotelis Libros De Anima Commentaria [Sp.?] (fort. auctore Prisciano Lydo)
Athens
P
Priscianus Lydus
Priscianus Lydus
c. 495 CE · Athens
Priscian of Lydia (Priscianus Lydus, active early 6th century CE) was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the group of pagan scholars who left Athens for the Persian court after the closing of the Platonic school there around 529 CE. He is associated with works addressing questions of the soul, perception, and natural philosophy, including answers to questions posed by the Persian king Chosroes. He should not be confused with the contemporaneous Latin grammarian Priscian of Caesarea.
Life journeyclick any stop, or use ←/→
✦
Stop 1 of 1
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
In the same place & time
✦
Sages whose lives overlapped with Priscianus Lydus’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
The world in their lifetime
✦
Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Priscianus Lydus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.