Biography:List of ancient Platonists
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Platonists are followers of Platonism, the philosophy of Plato. Platonism can be said to have begun when Plato founded his academy c. 385 BC. Ancient Platonism went on to last until the end of the last remaining pagan school of Platonism in Alexandria which was brought on by the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641, over a thousand years after the opening of the first Platonic school. Platonism had an immense impact on the intellectual life of the ancient world eventually becoming the dominant philosophy of late antiquity.
| Name | Period | School |
|---|---|---|
| Aedesia | fl. 5th century | Neoplatonist |
| Aedesius | died 355 | Neoplatonist |
| Aeneas of Gaza | fl. 5th century / died c. 518 | Neoplatonist |
| Aeschines of Neapolis | fl. c. 110 BC | New Academy |
| Agapius | fl. 5th – 6th century | Neoplatonist |
| Albinus | fl. c. 150 | Middle Platonist |
| Alcinous | fl. c. 2nd century | Middle Platonist |
| Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius | fl. 395 – 423 | Neoplatonist |
| Amelius | fl. c. 250 – 300 | Neoplatonist |
| Ammonius Hermiae | c. 440 – c. 520 | Neoplatonist |
| Ammonius of Athens | fl. 1st century | Middle Platonist |
| Ammonius Saccas | fl. 3rd century | Neoplatonist |
| Antiochus of Ascalon | c. 130 BC – 68/67 BC | Middle Platonist |
| Antoninus | fl. 4th century | Neoplatonist |
| Apuleius | c. 125 – c. 180 | Middle Platonist |
| Arcesilaus | c. 316 BC – c. 241 BC | Middle Academy |
| Aristonymus | fl. 4th century BC | Academy |
| Asclepigenia | fl. 430 | Neoplatonist |
| Asclepiodotus of Alexandria | fl. c. 550-600 | Neoplatonist |
| Atticus | fl. c. 175 | Middle Platonist |
| Augustine of Hippo | 354 – 430 AD | Neoplatonist |
| Axiothea of Phlius | fl. 4th century BC | Academy |
| Boethius | c. 477–524 AD | Neoplatonist |
| Calippus of Syracuse | died 351/0 BC | Academy |
| Carneades of Carnea | c. 214 BC – 129/8 BC | New Academy |
| Cassius Longinus | c. 213–273 | Middle Platonist |
| Charmadas | 164 BC – c. 95 BC | New Academy |
| Chaeron of Pellene | fl. 4th century BC | Academy |
| Chrysanthius of Sardis | fl. 4th century | Neoplatonist |
| Clement of Alexandria | c. 150 – c. 215 | Middle Platonist |
| Clitomachus | 187 BC – 109 BC | New Academy |
| Coriscus of Scepsis | fl. 4th century BC | Academy |
| Crantor | born c. 350 BC | Academy |
| Crates of Athens | died 268–265 BC | Academy |
| Damascius | born c. 458, died after 538 | Neoplatonist |
| Demetrius of Amphipolis | fl. 4th century BC | Academy |
| Dexippus | fl. 350 | Neoplatonist |
| Dio of Alexandria | fl. 1st century BC | New Academy |
| Diocles of Cnidus | fl. 3rd or 2nd century BC? | Middle Academy |
| Diodorus of Adramyttium | fl. 1st century BC | New Academy |
| Domninus of Larissa | c. 420 – c. 480 | Neoplatonist |
| Erastus of Scepsis | fl. 4th century BC | Academy |
| Euaeon of Lampsacus | fl. 4th century BC | Academy |
| Eudoxus of Cnidus | 410/408 BC – 355/347 BC | Academy |
| Eusebius of Myndus | fl. 4th century | Neoplatonist |
| Eustathius of Cappadocia | c. 400 | Neoplatonist |
| Evander | fl. c. 215 – c. 205 | Middle Academy |
| Gaius the Platonist | fl. 2nd century | Middle Platonist |
| Hagnon of Tarsus | fl. 2nd century BC | New Academy |
| Hegesinus of Pergamon | fl. c. 160 BC | Middle Academy |
| Hegias | fl. c. 500 | Neoplatonist |
| Heliodorus of Alexandria | fl. 5th century | Neoplatonist |
| Heraclides of Aenus | fl. 4th century | Academy |
| Heraclides Ponticus | 387 BC – 312 BC | Academy |
| Hermias | born c. 410 – died c. 450 | Neoplatonist |
| Hermodorus of Syracuse | fl. 4th century BC | Academy |
| Hestiaeus of Perinthus | fl. 4th century BC | Academy |
| Hierius | fl c. 500 | Neoplatonist |
| Hierocles of Alexandria | fl. c. 430 | Neoplatonist |
| Hypatia of Alexandria | born 350-370 – 415 | Neoplatonist |
| Iamblichus Chalcidensis | c. 245 – c. 325 | Neoplatonist |
| Isidore of Alexandria | fl. c. 475 | Neoplatonist |
| Lacydes of Cyrene | before 241 – c. 205 BC | Middle Academy |
| Lastheneia of Mantinea | fl. 4th century BC | Academy |
| Marinus of Neapolis | born c. 450 | Neoplatonist |
| Maximus of Ephesus | died 372 | Neoplatonist |
| Maximus of Tyre | fl. 2nd century | Middle Platonist |
| Menedemus of Pyrrha | fl. c. 350 BC | Academy |
| Metrodorus of Stratonicea | fl. 2nd century BC | New Academy |
| Numenius of Apamea | fl. c. 275 | Middle Platonist |
| Nymphidianus of Smyrna | fl. c. 360 | Neoplatonist |
| Olympiodorus the Younger | c. 495 – 570 | Neoplatonist |
| Onasander | fl. 1st century | Middle Platonist |
| Origen | c. 184 – c. 253 | Neoplatonist |
| Origen the Pagan | fl. c. 250 | Middle Platonist |
| Philip of Opus | fl. 4th century BC | Academy |
| Philo of Alexandria | 20 BC – 50 AD | Middle Platonist |
| Philo of Larissa | 159/158 BC – 84/83 BC | New Academy |
| Plato | 428/427 BC – 348/347 BC | Academy |
| Plotinus | c. 204 – 270 | Neoplatonist |
| Plutarch | c. 46 – 120 | Middle Platonist |
| Plutarch of Athens | c. 350 – 430 | Neoplatonist |
| Polemon | before 314 BC – 270/269 BC | Academy |
| Porphyry of Tyre | 234 – c. 305 | Neoplatonist |
| Priscian of Lydia | fl. c. 550 | Neoplatonist |
| Priscus of Epirus | c. 305 – c. 395 | Neoplatonist |
| Proclus Lycaeus | 412 – 485 | Neoplatonist |
| Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite | fl. 500 | Neoplatonist |
| Python of Aenus | fl. 4th century BC | Academy |
| Simplicius of Cilicia | c. 490 – c. 560 | Neoplatonist |
| Sopater of Apamea | died before 337 | Neoplatonist |
| Sosipatra of Ephesus | fl. c. 325 | Neoplatonist |
| Speusippus | c. 407 BC – 339 BC | Academy |
| Synesius | c. 373 – c. 414 | Neoplatonist |
| Syrianus | died c. 437 | Neoplatonist |
| Telecles of Phocis | died 167/1666 BC | Middle Academy |
| Theodorus of Asine | fl. 3rd century | Neoplatonist |
| Timaeus the Sophist | fl. between 1st and 4th centuries | Middle Platonist |
| Timolaus of Cyzicus | fl. 4th century BC | Academy |
| Xenocrates of Chalcedon | c. 396 BC – 314 BC | Academy |
| Zenodotus | fl. c. 475 | Neoplatonist |
See also
- List of ancient Greek philosophers
- List of Cynic philosophers
- List of Epicurean philosophers
- List of Stoic philosophers
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