Maximus of Tyre
Maximus of Tyre (; fl. late 2nd century AD), also known as
Cassius Maximus Tyrius, was a Greek
rhetorician and
philosopher who lived in the time of the
Antonines and
Commodus, and who belongs to the trend of the
Second Sophistic. His writings contain many allusions to the history of Greece, while there is little reference to Rome; hence it is inferred that he lived longer in Greece, perhaps as a professor at Athens. Although nominally a
Platonist, he is really a sophist rather than a philosopher, although he is still considered one of the precursors of
Neoplatonism.
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