Apollonius ( grc, Απολλώνιος) was a man of
ancient Syria who was a
Platonic philosopher. He lived about the time of the Roman emperor
Hadrian
Hadrian (; la, Caesar Trâiānus Hadriānus ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born in Italica (close to modern Santiponce in Spain), a Roman ''municipium'' founded by Italic settlers in Hispania B ...
—that is, the late 1st and early 2nd century AD—and is known to have inserted into his works an oracle which promised to Hadrian the government of the Roman world.
[Spartianus, '' Augustan History'', "Hadrian" 2]
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1st-century Syrian people
1st-century philosophers
2nd-century philosophers
Middle Platonists
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