Dipped into Neoplatonism today for some novel research. (Felt sad about the murder of Hypatia all over again, as one does.*)

But in general, it always strikes me how much 19th-C categories fudged our sense of history. "Neoplatonism" is an early Victorian term used to organize late-Hellenic philosophies pre- & post- Plotinus. But it's *much* more fruitful to study the progression of "one-ness" from older Egyptian & Indian philosophies, through 3rd C BC Plato & beyond.

Periodization is a trap!