Isido'rus
5. Of GAZA, a Neo-Platonic philosopher, the friend of Proclus and Marinus, whom he succeeded as chief of the school.
He again retired, however, into private life. His wife, according to Suidas (
s. v. Ὑπατία), was Hypatia, herself also celebrated in the history of philosophy; but it seems doubtful whether Suidas has not committed an anachronism in this statement. (Wernsdorf,
Dissert. iv.
de Hypatia, philosopha Alexandrina; HYPATIA.) His mother, Theodote, was also one of a family of philosophers, being the sister of Aegyptus, the friend of Hermeias. (Suid.
s. v. Ἐρμείας.)
The life of Isidorus, by Damascius, is quoted by Photius,
Biblioth. Cod. 242; see also Suid.
s. v. Ἰσίδωοος,
Συριανός,
Μαρῖνος,
Σαραπίων.