Aedesius

Aedesius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

(Αἰδέσιος). A Cappadocian, a Platonic, or more correctly an Eclectic, philosopher, who lived in the fourth century A.D., and was the friend and most distinguished scholar of Iamblichus (q.v.). After the death of his master, the school of Syria was dispersed, and Aedesius, fearing the real or fancied hostility of the Christian emperor Constantine to...

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Aedesius in Wikipedia

Aedesius (Greek Αιδέσιος, died 355) was a Neoplatonist philosopher and mystic born of a noble Cappadocian family. Career He migrated to Syria, attracted by the lectures of Iamblichus, of whom he became a follower. According to Eunapius, he differed from Iamblichus on certain points connected with theurgy and magic. After the death of his master th...

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