Olympiodorus

Olympiodorus, one of the latest of the Alexandrian Neoplatonists, flourished in the first half of the 6th century after Christ, during the reign of the Emperor Justinian. Regarding his life nothing is known. Of his writings we possess a Life of Plato, with commentaries or scholia on the Gorgias, Philebus, Phædo, and Aleibiades I. In these he appears as an acute and vigorous thinker and as a man of great erudition.—Another Olympiodorus, of the Peripatetic school, flourished in Alexandria in the 5th century B.C., and was the teacher of Proclus (q.v.).—A third Olympiodorus, from Thebes in Egypt, wrote in Greek a history of the western empire from 407 to 425 A.D., abridged by Photius.