Eclecticism as ideology of intellectual elite in Ptolemaic Alexandria

Eclecticism was the important characteristic of the Alexandria culture, and without it Neoplatonic philosophical synthesis, which has begun in Alexandria, would be impossible. However, it was studied, mainly, on a philosophy material. The statement of this philosophy begins with Potamon of Alexandria and his contemporaries: Philon, Arius Didymus, Eudor of Alexandria. In the article the general cultural background Ptolemaic Alexandria, which feature, according to the author, not synthesis, but original symbiosis of various cultural types, where the united basis became Museum and Bibliotheca.