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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
This Arab was clearly under the influence of Plotinus or some other Neo-Platonist.
From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray
Porphyry, the biographer and enthusiastic follower of Plotinus, was probably never at Alexandria in person; but his voluminous writings did much to make the Neo-Platonist system known to Athens and to the cities of Italy.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
When we speak of Gabirol as a Neo-Platonist, we mean that the essence of his system is Neo-Platonic.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
