List of ancient Platonists

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.

NamePeriodSchoolAedesia fl. 5th centuryNeoplatonistAedesius died 355NeoplatonistAeneas of Gaza fl. 5th century / died c. 518NeoplatonistAeschines of Neapolis fl. c. 110 BCNew AcademyAgapius fl. 5th – 6th centuryNeoplatonistAlbinus fl. c. 150Middle PlatonistAlcinous fl. c. 2nd centuryMiddle PlatonistAmbrosius Theodosius Macrobius fl. 395 – 423NeoplatonistAmelius fl. c. 250 – 300NeoplatonistAmmonius Hermiae c. 440 – c. 520NeoplatonistAmmonius of Athens fl. 1st centuryMiddle PlatonistAmmonius Saccas fl. 3rd centuryNeoplatonistAntiochus of Ascalon c. 130 BC – 68/67 BCMiddle PlatonistAntoninus fl. 4th centuryNeoplatonistApuleius c. 125 – c. 180Middle PlatonistArcesilaus c. 316 BC – c. 241 BCMiddle AcademyAristonymus fl. 4th century BCAcademyAsclepigenia fl. 430NeoplatonistAsclepiodotus of Alexandria fl. c. 550-600NeoplatonistAtticus fl. c. 175Middle PlatonistAugustine of Hippo 354 – 430 ADNeoplatonistAxiothea of Phlius fl. 4th century BCAcademyBoethiusc. 477–524 ADNeoplatonistCalippus of Syracuse died 351/0 BCAcademyCarneades of Carnea c. 214 BC – 129/8 BCNew AcademyCassius Longinus c. 213–273Middle PlatonistCharmadas 164 BC – c. 95 BCNew AcademyChaeron of Pellene fl. 4th century BCAcademyChrysanthius of Sardis fl. 4th centuryNeoplatonistClement of Alexandria c. 150 – c. 215Middle PlatonistClitomachus 187 BC – 109 BCNew AcademyCoriscus of Scepsis fl. 4th century BCAcademyCrantor born c. 350 BCAcademyCrates of Athens died 268–265 BCAcademyDamascius born c. 458, died after 538NeoplatonistDemetrius of Amphipolis fl. 4th century BCAcademyDexippus fl. 350NeoplatonistDio of Alexandria fl. 1st century BCNew AcademyDiocles of Cnidus fl. 3rd or 2nd century BC?Middle AcademyDiodorus of Adramyttium fl. 1st century BCNew AcademyDomninus of Larissa c. 420 – c. 480NeoplatonistErastus of Scepsis fl. 4th century BCAcademyEuaeon of Lampsacus fl. 4th century BCAcademyEudoxus of Cnidus 410/408 BC – 355/347 BCAcademyEusebius of Myndus fl. 4th centuryNeoplatonistEustathius of Cappadocia c. 400NeoplatonistEvander fl. c. 215 – c. 205Middle AcademyGaius the Platonist fl. 2nd centuryMiddle PlatonistHagnon of Tarsus fl. 2nd century BCNew AcademyHegesinus of Pergamon fl. c. 160 BCMiddle AcademyHegias fl. c. 500NeoplatonistHeliodorus of Alexandria fl. 5th centuryNeoplatonistHeraclides of Aenus fl. 4th centuryAcademyHeraclides Ponticus 387 BC – 312 BCAcademyHermias born c. 410 – died c. 450NeoplatonistHermodorus of Syracuse fl. 4th century BCAcademyHestiaeus of Perinthus fl. 4th century BCAcademyHierius fl c. 500NeoplatonistHierocles of Alexandria fl. c. 430NeoplatonistHypatia of Alexandria born 350-370 – 415NeoplatonistIamblichus Chalcidensis c. 245 – c. 325NeoplatonistIsidore of Alexandria fl. c. 475NeoplatonistLacydes of Cyrene before 241 – c. 205 BCMiddle AcademyLastheneia of Mantinea fl. 4th century BCAcademyMarinus of Neapolis born c. 450NeoplatonistMaximus of Ephesus died 372NeoplatonistMaximus of Tyre fl. 2nd centuryMiddle PlatonistMenedemus of Pyrrha fl. c. 350 BCAcademyMetrodorus of Stratonicea fl. 2nd century BCNew AcademyNumenius of Apamea fl. c. 275Middle PlatonistNymphidianus of Smyrna fl. c. 360NeoplatonistOlympiodorus the Younger c. 495 – 570NeoplatonistOnasander fl. 1st centuryMiddle PlatonistOrigen c. 184 – c. 253NeoplatonistOrigen the Pagan fl. c. 250Middle PlatonistPhilip of Opus fl. 4th century BCAcademyPhilo of Alexandria 20 BC – 50 ADMiddle PlatonistPhilo of Larissa 159/158 BC – 84/83 BCNew AcademyPlato 428/427 BC – 348/347 BCAcademyPlotinus c. 204 – 270NeoplatonistPlutarch c. 46 – 120Middle PlatonistPlutarch of Athens c. 350 – 430NeoplatonistPolemon before 314 BC – 270/269 BCAcademyPorphyry of Tyre 234 – c. 305NeoplatonistPriscian of Lydia fl. c. 550NeoplatonistPriscus of Epirus c. 305 – c. 395NeoplatonistProclus Lycaeus 412 – 485NeoplatonistPseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite fl. 500NeoplatonistPython of Aenus fl. 4th century BCAcademySimplicius of Cilicia c. 490 – c. 560NeoplatonistSopater of Apamea died before 337NeoplatonistSosipatra of Ephesus fl. c. 325NeoplatonistSpeusippus c. 407 BC – 339 BCAcademySynesius c. 373 – c. 414NeoplatonistSyrianus died c. 437NeoplatonistTelecles of Phocis died 167/1666 BCMiddle AcademyTheodorus of Asine fl. 3rd centuryNeoplatonistTimaeus the Sophist fl. between 1st and 4th centuriesMiddle PlatonistTimolaus of Cyzicus fl. 4th century BCAcademyXenocrates of Chalcedon c. 396 BC – 314 BCAcademyZenodotus fl. c. 475Neoplatonist

See also List of ancient Greek philosophers List of Cynic philosophers List of Epicurean philosophers List of Stoic philosophers