Agapius was a Neoplatonist philosopher

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 who lived in Athens

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. He was a notable philosopher in the Neoplatonist school in Athens when Marinus of Neapolis

Marinus of Neapolis

Marinus was a Neoplatonist philosopher born in Flavia Neapolis , Palestine in around 450 AD. He was probably a Samaritan, or possibly a Jew....

 was scholarch

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 after the death of Proclus

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Proclus Lycaeus , called "The Successor" or "Diadochos" , was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major Classical philosophers . He set forth one of the most elaborate and fully developed systems of Neoplatonism...

 (c. 485). He was admired for his love of learning and for putting forward difficult problems.

He may be the Agapius under whom John Lydus

Joannes Laurentius Lydus

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 heard some lectures on Platonist philosophy, while he was studying Aristotelian

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 doctrines in Constantinople

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 in 511, and of whom the poet Christodorus

Christodorus

Christodorus , a Greek epic poet from Coptos in Egypt, flourished during the reign of Anastasius I .According to Suidas, he was the author of Patria , accounts of the foundation, history and antiquities of various cities; Lydiaka , the mythical history of Lydia; Isaurica Christodorus , a Greek epic...

in his work On the Disciples of the Great Proclus stated that "Agapius is assuredly the last but the first of all."