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Neoplatonism
The Platonic theology of late antiquity
c.245 – c.529 CE · Classical Mediterranean · Extinct · Alexandria, Rome, Athens, Syria
IV. THE CLASSICAL & IMPERIAL WORLD — c.200 BCE – 500 CE
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- c.245 CE Plotinus opens his school in Rome.
- c.270 CE Plotinus dies; Porphyry publishes the Enneads around 301.
- c.300 CE Iamblichus develops theurgy in Syria.
- 415 CE Hypatia, mathematician and Neoplatonist head of the Alexandrian school, is murdered by a Christian mob.
- c.412–485 CE Proclus systematises the whole structure at Athens.
- 529 CE Justinian ends state funding for the Athenian school; the last Neoplatonists depart for Persia, some returning under a peace treaty clause protecting them.
- c.500 CE Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite writes Christian Neoplatonism under an apostolic pseudonym; it is accepted as near-apostolic for a thousand years and reshapes Christian mysticism.
- 9th–12th c. Transmitted into Islamic philosophy (al-Farabi, Avicenna, the Ismaili tradition) and Jewish Kabbalah.
- 1462–1499 CE Ficino translates Plotinus for the Medici; the Florentine Renaissance revival.
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