Neoplatonism was influenced by a philosopher and his tradition.
 In the Middle Ages, neoplatonic ideas were studied and discussed by Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thinkers
 The earliest Christian philosophers, such as Justin Martyr and Athenagoras of Athens, who attempted to connect Christianity with Platonism, and the Christian Gnostics of Alexandria, especially Valentinus and the followers of Basilides, also mirrored elements of Neoplatonism, albeit without its rigorous self-consistency

