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Roman West · 4th-6th c.

Chalcidius

Latin translator and commentator on the first part of Plato's Timaeus, the main conduit of Platonic cosmology to the early medieval Latin West.

Marius Victorinus

Christian Neoplatonist rhetorician whose Adversus Arium adapts Porphyrian metaphysics to Trinitarian theology.

Augustine of Hippo

Reader of "the books of the Platonists" (likely Plotinus and Porphyry in Latin translation); the Confessions and City of God record that encounter.

Macrobius

Author of a widely read commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis transmitting Neoplatonic cosmology to the Latin Middle Ages.

Martianus Capella

Author of De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, an allegorical encyclopedia carrying Neoplatonic and Varronian material.

Boethius

Translator of Porphyry's Isagoge and author of the Consolation of Philosophy, the single most important conduit of Neoplatonism into the medieval Latin curriculum.