Damascio y el cierre de la escuela neoplatónica de Atenas

Abstract

In 529, Justinian, seeing the unity of the Christian Empire threatened, orders the closing of Athens'Neoplatonic School, which had recently been restored by Damascius. The last diadochus and their followers go then to exile in Persia, where the political regime of King Chosroes guarantees them liberty of conscience. However, soon disappointed by a political reality very different from the one they had expected to find, some of them go back to their homeland, while some others scatter all over the Byzantine Empire.