fl. c. 430 CE · Platonist philosopher
Hierocles of Alexandria
Ἱεροκλῆς
Known · AttestedWorked in Alexandria.
In Alexandria: c. 420–450 CE
A Platonist who taught in Alexandria and wrote a commentary on the Pythagorean Golden Verses and a work on providence, known through Photius. Damascius tells of his teaching.
Our device: Their emblem is the Golden Verses on a tablet. No portrait of any of these people survives. The emblems are our devices.
On the shelves
- Hierocles of Alexandria (commentary); the Golden Verses are anonymous, Commentary on the Golden Verses of Pythagoras · commentary c. 430–450 CE; the Verses Hellenistic or early imperial · Survives whole
Moments
- c. 430–610s CE · The late schools teach Plato and Aristotle Known: attested
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Sources (2)
- Damascius, Philosophical History fr. 45 Athanassiadi
- E. J. Watts, City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006)