Gaius the Platonist

Short description: Ancient Roman philosopher

Gaius the Platonist was a Middle Platonist philosopher who was active in the early to middle 2nd century AD.[1][2] Very little is known about him or his philosophical opinions,[3] None of Gaius's work survives, and we have no direct evidence that he ever wrote anything, however, the summaries of his teachings by his students influenced later developments of Neoplatonism.[1] He was the teacher of Albinus, who was the teacher of Galen, and is known to have published a lost nine-volume summary of Gaius' lectures on Plato,[4] which were used by the Neoplatonist philosopher Priscian of Lydia.[5] Porphyry also mentions the works of Gaius were read in the school of Plotinus.[6][1] It has also been speculated that the On Plato and His Doctrine written by Apuleius may have been taken from the lectures of Gaius, but this assertion is now seen as dubious.[7] The Middle Platonic anonymous commentary on the Theaetetus of Plato, which is partially extant, may also have come from his school.[8]

## Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Dillon 1996, p. 266-267.
2. ↑ Sandy 1997, p. 27.
3. ↑ Armstrong 1967, p. 15.
4. ↑ Sandy 1997, p. 215.
5. ↑ Dillon 1996, pp. 266–267.
6. ↑ Porphyry, Life of Plotinus §14
7. ↑ Dillon 1993, p. xi.
8. ↑ Reale 1990, p. 212.

## References

* Armstrong, A. H. (April 1967) (in en). The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-04054-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=U9w-w4k35H4C. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
* Dillon, John (28 October 1993) (in en). Alcinous: The Handbook of Platonism. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-159113-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=0gBJEB0lUucC. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
* Dillon, John M. (1996) (in en). The Middle Platonists, 80 B.C. to A.D. 220. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-8316-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=aJQ9dvgh6BwC. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
* Sandy, Gerald N. (1997) (in en). The Greek World of Apuleius: Apuleius and the Second Sophistic. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-10821-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=eyRZAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
* Reale, Giovanni (1 January 1990) (in en). A History of Ancient Philosophy IV: The Schools of the Imperial Age. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-0128-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=eX-8XOn3GYUC. Retrieved 16 April 2023.

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Platonists

Academics|

| Old|

* Plato
* Aristotle
* Eudoxus
* Philip of Opus
* Aristonymus
* Coriscus and Erastus of Scepsis
* Demetrius of Amphipolis
* Euaeon of Lampsacus
* Heraclides and Python of Aenus
* Hestiaeus of Perinthus
* Lastheneia of Mantinea
* Timolaus of Cyzicus
* Speusippus
* Axiothea of Phlius
* Heraclides Ponticus
* Menedemus of Pyrrha
* Xenocrates
* Crantor
* Polemon
* Crates of Athens

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Skeptics|

| Middle|

* Arcesilaus
* Diocles of Cnidus
* Lacydes
* Telecles and Evander
* Hegesinus

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New|

* Carneades
* Hagnon of Tarsus
* Metrodorus of Stratonicea
* Clitomachus
* Charmadas
* Aeschines of Neapolis
* Philo of Larissa
* Cicero
* Dio of Alexandria

Middle Platonists|

* Antiochus
* Philo of Alexandria
* Plutarch
* Justin Martyr
* Gaius
* Albinus
* Alcinous
* Apuleius
* Atticus
* Maximus of Tyre
* Numenius of Apamea
* Longinus
* Clement of Alexandria
* Origen the Pagan
* Calcidius

Neoplatonists|

| Ancient|

* Ammonius Saccas
* Plotinus
* Disciples
* Origen
* Amelius
* Porphyry
* Iamblichus
* Sopater
* Eustathius of Cappadocia
* Sosipatra
* Aedesius
* Dexippus
* Chrysanthius
* Theodorus of Asine
* Julian
* Sallustius
* Maximus of Ephesus
* Eusebius of Myndus
* Priscus of Epirus
* Antoninus
* Gregory of Nyssa
* Hypatia
* Augustine
* Macrobius

| Academy|

* Plutarch of Athens
* Asclepigenia
* Hierocles
* Syrianus
* Hermias
* Aedesia
* Proclus
* Ammonius Hermiae
* Asclepiodotus
* Hegias
* Zenodotus
* Marinus
* Agapius
* Isidore
* Damascius
* Simplicius
* Priscian

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Medieval|

* Boethius
* John Philoponus
* Olympiodorus
* Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
* John Scotus Eriugena

| Islamic Golden Age|

* Al-Farabi

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* Anselm
* Peter Abelard

Chartres|

* Bernard
* Gilbert
* Thierry

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* Henry of Ghent
* Bonaventure
* Meister Eckhart
* Paul of Venice

Modern|

| Renaissance|

| Florentine Academy|

* Plethon
* Marsilio Ficino
* Cristoforo Landino
* Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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Cambridge|

* Ralph Cudworth
* Henry More
* Anne Conway

* Petrus Ramus
* Giordano Bruno
* Blaise Pascal
* Emanuel Swedenborg

German idealists|

* Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
* Christian Wolff
* Moses Mendelssohn
* Immanuel Kant
* Johann Gottlieb Fichte
* Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
* G. W. F. Hegel
* Hermann Lotze

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* Thomas Taylor
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
* Josiah Royce
* Søren Kierkegaard
* Henri Bergson
* Aleksei Losev

Contemporary|

* Bernard Bolzano
* Philip K. Dick
* Joseph Ratzinger

| Analytic|

* Gottlob Frege
* G. E. Moore
* Kurt Gödel
* Alonzo Church
* Roderick Chisholm
* Michael Dummett
* W. V. O. Quine
* David Kaplan
* Saul Kripke
* Alvin Plantinga
* Peter van Inwagen
* Nicholas Wolterstorff
* Crispin Wright
* Edward N. Zalta

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Continental|

* Edmund Husserl
* Roman Ingarden
* Leo Strauss

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