Agapius, Τηε Early Byzantine Neoplatonic, and His School in Constantinople

He was a follower of paganism, becoming a victim of anti-pagan repressions in Alexandria at the end of the fi fth century, which forced him to move to Constantinople. Agapius came from Alexandria and joined to the Alexandrian intellectual circles. In Constantinople, Agapius founded his own school, probably reproducing the traditions of the iatrosophistic schools of Alexandria, which, according to Damascius, was prosperous. Education at the school was paid and very expensive. The school of Agapius in Constantinople became an important link in the continuum of Antiquity in the early Byzantine era. Agapius' excellent erudition and competence in all fi elds of knowledge, both natural and medical, as well as in philosophy, grammar and rhetoric, allowed his school to become very popular in Constantinople

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