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Alcinous: The Handbook of Platonism - Review of John Dillon's translation of this Middle Platonist work, by Lloyd Gerson. Includes a short introduction of the Platonic thought of this period.
Middle Platonism: General Characteristics - A short introduction for Christians.

Middle Platonism - Middle Platonism refers to the development of certain philosophical doctrines associated with Plato from approximately 130 B.C.
Kenoma - Valentinius, a mid-2nd century Gnostic thinker and preacher, was among the early Christians who attempted to align Christianity with middle Platonism. Valentinius pooled dual concepts from the Platonic world of ideal forms, or fullness, (pleroma) and the lower world of phenomena, or emptiness (kenoma).