Maximus of Tyre

Maximus of Tyre was a second-century Greek philosopher and sophist whose writings and orations contain elements of Neoplatonic mysticism and cover numerous topics from Platonic theology to the proper attitude to pleasure.  He was known also as a moralist and a systematizer of organic nature.  Drawing upon a wide range of scholarly positions, including those of the Peripatetics and Stoics, Maximus pioneered a theology that ultimately served to establish Platonism as a legitimate source for early Christian philosophical thinking.