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Neo-Platonist, Plotinusist and closet Manichaeist St Augustine had a contentious game as right-sided linesman in the classic match between Germany and Greece, allowing Socrates's diving header despite Marx's claims for offside.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 22, 2012
“Agora,” which opens in New York on Friday, is a big-budget two-hour Roman epic that features Ms. Weisz as Hypatia, the Neo-Platonist philosopher and astronomer-mathematician sometimes credited with inventing the hydrometer and the plane astrolabe.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2010
The Neo-Platonist school culminated and expired in Proclus, the young prodigy of Alexandria, the ascetic teacher of Athens, the "inspired dogmatizer," the "heir of Plato."
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
Thus the second label found in the violin was explained and Sir John's view confirmed, that Stradivarius had made the instrument for some Neo-Platonist enthusiast who had dedicated it to his master Porphyrius.
From The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner
From the first Stoic to the last Neo-Platonist, there is no essentially new principle added to philosophy, unless we count as such the sad and jaded ideas which the Neo-Platonists introduced from the East.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
