The Neo-Platonic Philosophers

Table of Prominent Neo-Platonists
Name Birthplace Dates Remarks
Ammonius Saccas . about 175-250 A.D. Alleged founder of the Neo-Platonic school
Plotinus Egypt about 205-270/1 A.D. Greatest Neo-Platonist. Wrote Enneads
Porphyry Syria about 232/3-304 A.D. Most important disciple of Plotinus
Proclus Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey) 411-485 A.D. Systematized Neo-Platonism

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