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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

At Alexandria, the home of the heresy, two systems of philosophy, the Aristotelian and the Neo-Platonist, were strongly represented.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)

We propose to take, first, the Aristotelian, and then the Neo-Platonist philosophy, elucidating those leading ideas in each on which the monophysite thinker would naturally fasten, as lending intellectual support to his religious views.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)

No wonder Europe chose this path, and not the Neo-Platonist path of flaming idealism and endeavor.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth