Onomasticon 531
Julian: 332-263, Emperor, anti-Christian, philosopher.
Lucius:2
nd
century ad (?), Platonist (?), critic of Aristotle.
Marius Victorinus:4
th
century ad, rhetorician, translator, philosopher,
theologian; he converted to Christianity and became the bore of the
century.
Martianus Capella: floruit 425 ad, his Marriage of Mercury and Philology
is a mixture of elementary encyclopaedia and fey fantasy.
Maximus: floruit 360 ad, Platonist philosopher in the mould of Iamblichus,
attached to Julian.
Nicostratus:2
nd
century ad, Athenian, Platonist philosopher, critic of
Aristotle.
Publius Nigidius Figulus:1
st
century bc, learned Roman, friend of Cicero,
who wrote on grammar and theology and magic.
Philo of Megara: 3
rd
/2
nd
century bc, philosopher and logician.
Philodemus of Gadara: 1
st
century bc, Epicurean poet and philosopher,
some of whose works were preserved by the lava of Vesuvius.
John Philoponus:6
th
Century ad, Christian Platonist, commentator on
Aristotle.
Plato: 429-347 bc, Athenian philosopher.
Plotinus: 205–270 ad, innovative and influential Platonist.
Plutarch of Chaeronea: 50–120 ad, historian and essayist, Platonist philo-
sopher.
Pompeius:5
th
/6
th
century ad, Latin grammarian, commentator on Donatus.
Porphyry of Tyre: 233–305 ad, polymath, pupil and editor of Plotinus.
Posidonius of Apamea: 135-50 bc, Stoic philosopher, historian, teacher of
Cicero and friend of Pompey.
Praxiphanes:4
th
/3
rd
century bc, Peripatetic philosopher with an interest in
grammar.
Priscian: early 6
th
century ad, an African who taught Latin grammar in
Greek Constantinople.
Probus:4
th
century ad, Latin grammarian.
Proclus: 410–485, Platonist philosopher, who also wrote on astronomy,
physics and geometry.
Protagoras of Abdera: floruit 450 bc, sophist celebrated for his relativism.