Isidore of Alexandria (450–520)

Born 450 CE, died 520 CE.

Isidore of Alexandria, also called Isidore of Gaza (; also Isidorus ; Greek: Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; c. 450 – c. 520), was a Greek philosopher and one of the last of the Neoplatonists. He lived in Athens and Alexandria toward the end of the 5th century AD. He became head of the school in Athens in succession to Marinus, who followed Proclus.

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