Its founder was Ammonius Saccas, and its greatest exponents were Marinus, Proclus, and Porphyry. Flo
Its founder was Ammonius Saccas, and its greatest exponents were Marinus, Proclus, and Porphyry. Flourishing until Justinian closed the schools of philosophy, another member convinced the Emperor Gallenius to build a city for philosophers, governed by the rules of it major treatise--the _Enneads_ (or groups of nine). FTP name this philosophy stressing the mystical union with God taught by Plotinus, and deriving from the teachings of Plato.
Its founder was Ammonius Saccas, and its greatest exponents were Marinus, Proclus, and Porphyry.
{Neoplatonism}