What is "antoninus"

Antoninus is an Ancient Roman family name which derived from the given name Antonius the Latin form of Anthony.

• Any of the Antonines, including:
  • Antoninus Pius (86–161)
  • Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (121–180)
• Caracalla (186–217)
• Elagabalus (203-222)
• Antoninus Liberalis, an ancient Greek grammarian who lived between the first and third centuries AD
• Antoninus (philosopher), Neoplatonist philosopher of the 4th century
• Marcus Antoninus (disambiguation), multiple people
• A character from Spartacus (1960 film)
• Antoninus (turncoat), a Roman who joined the Sassanid Empire and assisted Shapur II in the siege of Amida.

Antoninus was a Neoplatonist philosopher who lived in the 4th century. He was a son of Eustathius and Sosipatra, and had a school at Canopus, Egypt. He was an older contemporary of Hypatia who lived and worked nearby in Alexandria. He devoted himself wholly to his pupils, but he never expressed any opinion upon divine matters, and although Eunapius attributes this to Antoninus' piety, he also points out that Antoninus refrained from theurgic rites "perhaps because he kept a wary eye on the imperial views and policy which were opposed to these practices." His moral conduct is described as exemplary. He and his disciples were strongly attached to paganism; but he is said to have been able to see that its end was near at hand, and he predicted that after his death all the splendid temples of the gods would be changed into tombs:

He foretold to all his followers that after his death the temple would cease to be, and even the great and holy temples of Serapis would pass into formless darkness and be transformed, and that a fabulous and unseemly gloom would hold sway over the fairest things on earth. To all these prophecies time bore witness, and in the end his prediction gained the force of an oracle.

Antoninus ( Greek: Άντονίνoς; Latin: Antoninvs) was a member of the Household Cavalry under Emperor Constantius II, and later a Sassanid advisor to the Shah Shapur II. He played a key role in providing intelligence to the Shah, culminating in the sack of Amida in 359 AD.