Damascius
Damascius (/dəˈmæʃəs/; Greek: Δαμάσκιος, c. 462[1] – after 538), known as "the last of the Athenian Neoplatonists," was the last scholarch of the neoplatonic Athenian school. He was one of the neoplatonic philosophers who left Athens after laws confirmed by emperor Justinian I forced the closure of the Athenian school in c. 529 AD. After he left Athens, he may have sought refuge in the court of the Persian King Chrosroes, before being allowed back into the Byzantine Empire. His surviving works consist of three commentaries on the works of Plato, and a metaphysical text entitled Difficulties and Solutions of First Principles.
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Commentary on Plato's Parmenides.
Commentary on Plato's Phaedo. This work has been erroneously ascribed to .[22]
Olympiodorus of Alexandria
Commentary on Plato's Philebus. Also erroneously ascribed to Olympiodorus.
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Ammonius Saccas
Azone
Decline of Greco-Roman polytheism
Iamblichus
Olympiodorus the Younger
Plotinus
Theodora of Emesa
Damascius' Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles (in English and Ancient Greek). Translated by Ahbel-Rappe, Sara. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc. 2010. 9780195150292.
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Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Scepticism in the sixth century? Damascius' 'Doubts and Solutions Concerning First Principles,' Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 (1998), pp. 337–363.
Polymnia Athanassiadi, Persecution and Response in late Paganism. The evidence of Damascius. In: Journal of Hellenic Studies 113 (1993), pp. 1–29.
Polymnia Athanassiadi (editor and translator), Damascius. The Philosophical History. Athens: Apamea Cultural Association, 1999.
Cosmin Andron, Damascius on Knowledge and its Object. In: Rhizai 1 (2004) pp. 107–124
Sebastian R. P. Gertz, , Leiden: Brill, 2011.
Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism: Studies on the Ancient Commentaries on Plato's Phaedo
Sebastian R. P. Gertz, . In: Ancient Readings of Plato's Phaedo (Leiden: 2015), 240–55.
"From 'Immortal' to 'Imperishable': Damascius on the Final Argument in Plato's Phaedo"
Golitsis, Pantelis (2023). Damascius' philosophy of time. Berlin Boston: De Gruyter. 9783111053189.
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Raban von Haehling, Damascius und die heidnische Opposition im 5. Jahrhundert nach Christus. In: Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 23 (1980), pp. 82–85.
Udo Hartmann, Geist im Exil. Römische Philosophen am Hof der Sasaniden. In: Udo Hartmann/Andreas Luther/Monika Schuol (eds.), Grenzüberschreitungen. Formen des Kontakts zwischen Orient und Okzident im Altertum. Stuttgart 2002, pp. 123–160.
Hartmann, Udo (2018). Der spätantike Philosoph. Die Lebenswelten der paganen Gelehrten und ihre hagiographische Ausgestaltung in den Philosophenviten von Porphyrios bis Damaskios (in German). Bonn: Habelt. pp. 246–354. 978-3-7749-4172-4.
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Androniki Kalogiratou, The Portrayal of Socrates by Damascius. In: Phronimon: Journal of the South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities 7 (1) 2006, pp. 45–54.
Androniki Kalogiratou, Theology in Philosophy: The Case of the Late Antique Neoplatonist Damascius. In Skepsis: A Journal for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research XVIII, i-ii, 2007, pp. 58–79.
Robert Lamberton, (book review), Bryn Mawr Classical Review, January 1, 2000.
"Damascius. The Philosophical History"
Remes, Pauliina; Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla, eds. (2014). The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism (in English and Ancient Greek). H. Tarrant, R. Sorabji, G. Reydams-Schils, F. Ferrari, J. D. Turner, V. Adluri, H. Baltussen, A. Smith, L. Brisson, M. Martijn, S. Ahbel-Rappe, J. Halfwassen, C. O’Brien, T. Arnold, T. Ratzsch, S. Slaveva-Griffin, R. Chiaradonna, J-M. Narbonne, R. M. Berg, L. P. Gerson, J. F. Finamore, F. M. Schroeder, G. Aubry, P. Lautner, A. Linguiti, J. Wilberding, K. Corrigan, S. Stern-Gillet, B. Collette-Dučić, P. Adamson, P. Remes, D. J. O’Meara, P. Vassilopoulou, D. Moran, D. Y. Dimitrov, S. Pessin. Oxford; New York: Routledge. 9781315744186.
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On the Eternity of the World, De Aeternitate Mundi, Proclus (in English and Ancient Greek). Translated by Lang, Helen S.; Macro, A. D.; McGinnis, Jon. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press. 2001. 0520225546.
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Remes, Pauliina (2008). Neoplatonism. Stocksfield, United Kingdom: Acumen Publishing Limited. 9781844651252.
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John R. Martindale, John Morris, II. Cambridge 1980, pp. 342f.
The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire
Carlo Maria Mazzucchi, Damascio, Autore del Corpus Dionysiacum, e il dialogo Περι Πολιτικης Επιστημης. In: Aevum: Rassegna di scienze storiche linguistiche e filologiche 80, Nº 2 (2006), pp. 299–334.
Carlo Maria Mazzucchi, Iterum de Damascio Areopagita. In: Aevum: Rassegna di scienze storiche linguistiche e filologiche 87, Nº 1 (2013), pp. 249–265.
Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 667. ark:/13960/t9f47mp93.
Marilena Vlad, Archived 2020-04-29 at the Wayback Machine (Paris, Vrin, 2019)
Damascius et l'ineffable. Récit de l'impossible discours
Tiziano F. Ottobrini (a cura di), Damascio Intorno ai principi primi - Aporie e soluzioni, Editrice Morcelliana, (2022), pp. 835