Albinus (Ancient Greek:Ἀλβίνος; fl. c. 150 AD) was aPlatonistphilosopher, who lived atSmyrna, and was teacher ofGalen.[1] A short tract by him, entitledIntroduction to Plato's dialogues, has survived. From the title of one of the extant manuscripts we learn that Albinus was a pupil ofGaius the Platonist.[2] The original title of his work was probablyPrologos, and it may have originally formed the initial section of notes taken at the lectures of Gaius.[3] After explaining the nature of theDialogue, which he compares to aDrama, the writer goes on to divide the Dialogues ofPlato into four classes, logical, critical, physical, ethical, and mentions another division of them into Tetralogies, according to their subjects. He advises that theAlcibiades,Phaedo,Republic, andTimaeus, should be read in a series.
Some of Albinus's fame is attributed to the fact that a 19th-century German scholar,J. Freudenthal, attributedAlcinous'sHandbook of Platonism to Albinus. This attribution has since been discredited by the work of John Whittaker in 1974.[4][5]
Another Albinus is mentioned byBoethius andCassiodorus, who wrote inLatin some works onmusic andgeometry.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Albinus".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. p. 93.
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