Aeneas of Gaza (d. c. 518)[1] was a Neo-Platonic philosopher and a convert to Christianity who flourished towards the end of the fifth century.
He is considered part of the Rhetorical School of Gaza, which flourished in Byzantine Palaestina in the fifth and sixth centuries.
In his major work entitled Theophrastus, he alludes to Hierocles of Alexandria as his teacher, and in some of his letters he mentions as his contemporaries writers from the end of the fifth century and the beginning of the sixth, such as Procopius of Gaza.
[5] Like many others from his literary circle, Aeneas had close relations with the monastic communities that surrounded Gaza.
But, unlike Synesius and Nemesius, he rejected some of the most characteristic doctrines of the Neo-Platonists as being inconsistent with Christian dogma.