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| The following are short biographical entries for individual philosophers and writers who appear in these web pages. | The following are short biographical entries for individual philosophers and writers who appear in these web pages. | ||
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| + | **Alcinous** (2nd century C.E.). Alcinous is the author of a famous handbook on Platonism, the //Didaskalikos//. Nothing is known of his life, but that he probably lived in the second century. In 1879, Freudenthal published a paper stating that the name Alcinous was, due to scribal errors, actually that of Albinus, another middle Platonist. This theory, however, has a number of difficulties and has not proved strong enough to convince most scholars. | ||
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