Diogenes of Phoenicia

Short description: Neoplatonist philosopher banished from Athens in 529

Diogenes of Phoenicia (Ancient Greek:; fl. 529-532) was a 6th-century Greek philosopher. He is known mainly for the fact that Agathias mentions him as one of the seven well-known philosophers who influenced the Academy in its final years.[1] Diogenes was born in Phoenicia, and like most other academy leaders of that time, a native of the Middle East.[2]

Diogenes was one of the philosophers who, after the closure of the Academy in 529, moved to the Sassanid Empire, and took with him a large number of works of Greek philosophy, which eventually ended up being translated into the Syrian, Hebrew, Arabic and Persian languages.[2] The philosophers later returned to the West, but their fates afterwards are unknown.[3]

## References

1. ↑ Agathias: Historiae 2.30.3–31.4.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bonin, Thérèse (2000). "Introduction". Topoi 19 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1023/a:1006358305005. ISSN 0167-7411.
3. ↑ Maas, Michael (2005-04-18) (in en). The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian. Cambridge University Press. pp. 330. ISBN 978-1-139-82687-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=9AvjaThtrKYC.

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