Middle Platonism
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Middle Platonism was a revival and outgrowth of Platonic philosophy from about 90 BC – when Antiochus of Ascalon rejected the skepticism of the new Academy – until the development of Neoplatonism unde
Plutarch
Plutarch
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Plutarch was a Greek and later Roman Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series
Middle Platonism
…in the 3rd century. Middle Platonism absorbed many doctrines from the rival Peripatetic and Stoic schools. The pre-eminent philosopher in this period, Plutarch (c. 45–120), defended the freedom of the will and the immortality of the soul. He sought to show that God, in creating the world, had transformed matter…
2nd-century bust from Delphi sometimes identified as Plutarch
Portrait of a philosopher alongside a hermaic stele dedicated to Plutarch at the Delphi Archaeological Museum
Modern portrait at Chaeronea, based on the bust from Delphi