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Syrianus

c. 390 CE–c. 437 CE · Athens

Syrianus (active first half of the 5th century CE) was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher who led the Platonic school at Athens and was the teacher of Proclus. He wrote commentaries on Aristotle, notably on the Metaphysics, in which he defended Platonic positions, and helped shape the systematic Neoplatonism that his pupils developed further.

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AthensAttica (Greece)

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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.

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Plutarch of Athens, Proclus the Grammarian, Proclus

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