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Greek Christian

Syria and Byzantium · 5th-9th c.

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Writes under the name of Paul's Athenian convert (Acts 17:34); demonstrated by Koch and Stiglmayr (1895) to be a late-5th/early-6th-century author deeply dependent on Proclus.

Maximus the Confessor

Byzantine theologian whose Ambigua defend and rework Dionysian metaphysics.

Synesius of Cyrene

Bishop and philosopher whose Hymns carry Neoplatonic henology into Christian devotional verse.

  • Hymns — Petavius, 1612 not yet ingested
  • De insomniis — Krabinger, 1850 not yet ingested