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Philo
Jew, helped develop Neoplatonism and Gnosticism
Gnostic tenants
Godhead
Demiurge (Yahweh)
Jesus = Apothesis
Basilides
Gnostic
Reincarnation/Karma
Depreciated martyrs
Materium is evil
Valentinus
Abandoned orthodoxy because denied bishop posistion
Mission of Jesus/Holy Spirit is teach humans to seek enlightenment
Clement of Alexandria
Pagan convert
Focus on Character, Actions, Passions
Moderation
Origen
Ascetic
First Principles: Intro to Christian theology
Against Celsus: Refutation
St Antony
Father of Monasticism
Cenobitic/Pachomius
Communal
Rules
Ascetic
Plotinus
Many influences
Neoplatonism
Similar to gnosticism, but materium can still be good
Emmenances: One -> Demiurge -> World Soul -> World
Intermediaries added which became gods/demons/angels
Neopythagorianism
Number magic
Ascetism
Reintroduce mysticism to Hellenistic philosophy
Ascendence of the soul
Callimachus
Early librarian
hated long books
elitist
Aristarchos
Math; Heliocentric model
Erasistrators
Anatomist; Circulatory system, liquids -> stomach
No bloodletting, diet
Erastothenes
Scientific Chronology
Size/Tilt of earth
Archimedes
Father of Engineering
Screw pump
Irregular density measurement
Circle math
Hipparchus
Invented trigonometry
