Damascio y el cierre de la escuela neoplatónica de Atenas

Abstract

En 529, Justiniano, temeroso de ver amenazada Ia unidad del Imperio cristiano, ordena el cierre de Ia escuela neoplatónica recientemente restaurada por Damascio, y rnitigar así el último foco de enseñanza pagana. El último diadoco y sus discípulos se exilian a Persia, donde el régimen político del rey Cosroes les garantizaba Ia libertad de conciencia. Sin embargo, pronto decepcionados par una realidad política muy diferente, los filósofos regresaron a su patria de origen o se dispersaron en el Imperio Bizantino.

In 529, Justinian, seeing the unity of the Christian Empire threatened, orders the closing of At-hens'Neoplatonic School, which had recently been restored by Damascius. The last diadochus and their followers go then to exile in Persia, where the political regime of King Chosroes guarantees them liberty of conscience. However, soon disappointed by a political reality very different from the one they had ex-pected to find, some of them go back to their homeland, while some others scatter all over the Byzanti-ne Empire.