Platonism and Neoplatonism in Episodes to Come

The philosophical tastes of late antiquity and the byzantine period were a filter through which greek literature had to pass to reach us. It's no accident that the works of platonus and aristitelians have survived better than the works of stoics and epicureans, he says. Plotinus wrote in the third century a d, defended a platonist system that would become the dominant philosophy of late antiquity. This system went on to be a pervasive influence on mediaeval philosophy in both arabic and latin.