Numenius of Apamea was a Greek philosopher who (along with
Maximus of Tyre) was chiefly responsible for the transition from Platonist idealism to a Neoplatonic synthesis of Hellenistic, Persian, and Jewish intellectual systems during the late second century. Many of his sayings were recorded by
Amelius. He came to believe that matter and God were inherently separate and as a result taught a strict dualism in which a demigod, or
Demiurge, was responsible for creation.