 In 529, a year that some historians have considered the end of Antiquity, emperor Justinian ordered that “no one was any longer allowed to teach philosophy and astronomy” (this is often referred to as the closure of the Platonic Academy; for details and further literature see Goulet &amp; Coda 2016: 344). It is assumed that this edict mainly targeted non-Christian philosophers such as Neoplatonists and Manichaeans. Following this prohibition, but not immediately, Simplicius travelled with six other Neoplatonic philosophers under the lead of Damascius to the court of the Persian King Chosroes, who had only come to power in Ctesiphon in 531. Disappointed by their experience in Persia—the historian Agathias suggests that the philosophers at first considered Chosroes a kind of ideal Platonic philosopher king—and protected by a peace treaty between Persia and Rome in 532, the philosophers left the country, apparently several months after their arrival. Where the seven went after that is still a matter of debate. The treaty says, inter alia, that 