It is a philosophical current that emerged in Alexandria between the second and third centuries AD. C . , which took up the ideas of Platonism as a philosophical model, with influences from Stoicism and other currents of Hellenism, as well as borrowing ideas from Eastern philosophies combining Hellenistic and Platonic thought with mysticism and the religious ideas of the time.
* Only one "like" per meaning and day, the more "likes" the meaning will appear higher in the list