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Isidorus (Isidoros) of GAZA, a Neo-Platonic philosopher, the friend of Proclus and Marinus, whom he succeeded as chief of the school. He again retired, however, into private life. His wife, according to Suidas (s. v. Hupatia), was Hypatia, herself also celebrated in the history of philosophy; but it seems doubtful whether Suidas has not committed an anachronism in this statement. (Wernsdorf, Dissert. iv. de Hypatia, philosopha Alexandrina). His mother, Theodote, was also one of a family of philosophers, being the sister of Aegyptus, the friend of Hermeias. (Suid. s. v. Ermeias.) The life of Isidorus, by Damascius, is quoted by Photius, Biblioth. Cod. 242; see also Suid. s. v. Isidooos, Surianos, Marinos, Sarapion.
470 - 530
Procopius. Prokop was an adviser to Justinian's general Belisarius. He wrote
critical historical reports about the campaigns against the Vandals in North Africa,
the Sassanian Persians, the Ostrogoths in Italy,
and about the character of the emperor.
This text is cited July 2003 from the Hyperhistory Online URL below.
Choricius (Chorikios), a rhetorician and sophist of Gaza, the pupil of Procopius
of Gaza, and afterwards of another sophist of the same place, flourished in the
reign of Justinian, about A. D. 520. His orations formed, in the time of Photius,
a collection under the title of meletai kai suntaxeis logon diaphoroi. They were
on very various subjects, but chiefly panegyrical. Photius makes particular mention
of a funeral oration for the rhetorician's teacher (Cod. 160). Twenty-one of Choricius's
orations exist in MS.
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